Okay, here’s my blog post about messing around with Cypress and a golf course website:
So, I was poking around this golf course website, seeing if I could automate some stuff with Cypress. I’ve used it a bit before, but nothing too fancy. Just wanted to see how it would handle a real-world site, you know?
Getting Started
First things first, I installed Cypress. Pretty standard stuff, just ran the usual npm command. Then, I created a new project and opened up Cypress. It gives you that nice little window where you can see everything happening.
Finding My Way Around
Next, I opened the golf course website in the Cypress browser. I just wanted to get a feel for the site’s structure. Clicked around a few pages, checked out the tee time booking section, looked at the course layout – the usual browsing stuff.
Writing Some Simple Tests
I started with some really basic tests. Like, I made sure the homepage loaded correctly. Then I checked if certain elements were visible, like the header and the main navigation menu. Super simple, just to get my feet wet.
- Checked the homepage title. You know, make sure I was on the right site!
- Looked for the main navigation links. Made sure they were all there and visible.
- Verified that the logo was showing up. Gotta have that branding, right?
Trying Something a Bit Harder
Then I got a little braver. I wanted to see if I could interact with the tee time booking form. I found the form elements – you know, the date picker, the time slots, the number of players dropdown. I used the Cypress selectors to grab those.
I typed in some dates, selected a time, and picked a number of players. It was pretty cool to see Cypress doing all that automatically.
Running Into a Snag (and fixing it)
Of course, it wasn’t all smooth sailing. I had a bit of trouble with the date picker at first. It was one of those fancy JavaScript ones, not a standard HTML input. But, after fiddling around with the Cypress commands and looking at the documentation, I figured out how to interact with it. That felt good!
Finishing Up
I ran all my tests a few times, just to make sure everything was working consistently. Cypress makes it really easy to see what’s passing and what’s failing. And that’s about it! I successfully automated a few basic user flows on a real, live golf course website. Not bad for a little afternoon project, right?
This was just me exploring what could do, next time will be more complicated things, and let’s see what happens then.
