Building an API Automation Framework Using Cypress

In this session, Greg Patterson will share his experience starting on a new team that was directed to use Cypress for automation, and API automation was also a requirement. Cypress has the ability to support both of these needs, but it is something that takes a little work. After some short training sessions, Greg was able to help all of his team to contribute to the automation efforts by creating a simple framework that could be used for both UI and API automation. Greg will share his experience with integrating the frameworks into Azure DevOps to run tests in the cloud. Key features to be discussed in this session include: using a 'baseTest' class, login functions, reporting management for multiple test suites, parallel testing, and using CLI to execute against different test sets and test lanes.