Time Travel

In the next couple of lessons, we will dive into the main features of Cypress and how they help us write better, more stable test cases. Let’s start with time travel and what it means within the scope of Cypress.

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What is time travel?

While we’re running tests, Cypress takes snapshots. These snapshots will tell us exactly what is happening at each step during our test suite.

You’ve already seen these shots in previous lessons, but you might not know they were called snapshots.