Cypress: Testing without Selenium, Part 1

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Introduces Cypress.io as an alternative to Selenium that runs tests inside the browser via a bundled Electron app and an npm package. Covers Cypress commands, automatic screenshots and video on failure, built-in network stubbing/inspection, DevTools integration, TypeScript typings, retry behavior and CI support, while noting limitations with cross-origin, multi-domain flows and problematic iframes, with live examples showing what succeeds and fails.

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1. 0:00Cypress intro
2. 3:24Flaws in testing
3. 9:26Modern alternative Cypress
4. 17:40How tests run
5. 24:36First test demo
6. 31:06Cypress docs
7. 36:18Debugging with videos
8. 40:22Mocking API responses
9. 43:07Cypress limitations

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