Mastering Cypress: Essential Questions Every Tester Should Know before going for cypress interview.

1. What is Cypress and how does it differ from Selenium?

2. What are the advantages of using Cypress over other testing tools?

3. Explain what the hooks present in cypress are and might ask the use of hooks in real time project?

4. What are Fixtures in Cypress and how do you use them in your project?

5. Explain the folder structure and use of every folder in cypress?

6. Explain what custom command is and how to create custom command. How many custom command you have created in your project?

7. How do you handle file uploads in Cypress?

8. Might ask you to automate one feature using cypress?

9. They might ask you to write Get, Post, Put, Patch or Delete call using cypress.

10. How to run a specific test case from a bunch of test cases ?

11. What are the type of assertion present in cypress ? 

12. How to handle Alert, confirm popup ?

13.How to handle parent child tab in cypress.

14. What are the plugins that you require in cypress from outside.

15. What is test runner.

16. What is npm and npx ?

17. How to setup CI/CD in Gitlab in cypress ?

18. How do you handle asynchronous behavior in Cypress?

19. What are cypress plugins and how can you use them.

20. How do you handle retries in cypress test ? or How do you handle flakiness of the test cases in cypress ? 

21. How to run test cases in cypress from command line.

22. How to capture screenshot and videos in cypress ?

23. Have your tried setting up CI/CD for your project. if yes then how explain ?

24.  How do you handle dynamic content in Cypress tests?

25. How can you manage test data in Cypress?

26. What is Cypress’s "Test Runner" and how do you use it?

27. What is describe and it block in cypress ?

28. What are the advantages and disadvantages of Cypress?

29. How would you execute Cypress tests on different browsers?

30. How do you test if an element is visible, enable or disable, exist or not, exist or not, checked or not, selected or not  in Cypress?

31. How do you interact with dropdowns in Cypress?

32. How do you deal with iframes in Cypress?

33. How do you use Cypress with continuous integration (CI) tools?

34. How do you handle flaky tests in Cypress?

35. What are some common challenges when using Cypress for testing, and how would you overcome them?

36. How do you handle authentication in Cypress?

37. What is the cy.intercept() command?

38. What are the different ways to run Cypress tests?

39. How do you simulate mouse events like dragging and dropping in Cypress??

40. What is the purpose of cy.request() in cypress ?

41. They might ask you to share your screen and tell you to write few API code ?

42. How to perform scroll operation in cypress ?