Recipes


This repo contains various recipes for testing common scenarios using Cypress: Fundamentals, Testing the DOM, Logging in, Preprocessors, Blogs, Stubbing and spying, Unit Testing, Server Communication, Other Cypress Recipes, Community Recipes
Fundamentals
Recipe |
Description |
Node Modules |
Import your own node modules |
Environment variables |
Passing environment variables to tests |
Handling errors |
Handling thrown errors and unhandled promise rejections |
Dynamic tests |
Create tests dynamically from JSON data |
Dynamic tests from CSV |
Create tests dynamically from CSV file |
Dynamic tests from API |
Create tests dynamically by calling an external API |
Fixtures |
Loading single or multiple fixtures |
Adding Custom Commands |
Write your own custom commands using JavaScript with correct types for IntelliSense to work |
Adding Custom Commands (TS) |
Write your own custom commands using TypeScript |
Adding Chai Assertions |
Add new or custom chai assertions with correct types |
Cypress module API |
Run Cypress via its module API |
Wrapping Cypress module API |
Writing a wrapper around "cypress run" command line parsing |
Custom browsers |
Control which browsers the project can use, or even add a custom browser into the list |
Use Chrome Remote Interface |
Use Chrome debugger protocol to trigger hover state and print media style |
Out-of-the-box TypeScript |
Write tests in TypeScript without setting up preprocessors |
Per-test timeout |
Fail a test if it runs longer than the specified time limit |
Cypress events |
Using Cypress.on and cy.on to listen to Cypress events like before:window:load |
Video resolution |
Increase the browser window size to record high quality videos and capture detailed screenshots |
Testing the DOM
Recipe |
Description |
Tab Handling and Links |
Links that open in a new tab |
Hover and Hidden Elements |
Test hidden elements requiring hover |
Form Interactions |
Test form elements like input type range |
Drag and Drop |
Use .trigger() to test drag and drop |
Shadow DOM |
You need to use any of available custom commands |
Waiting for static resource |
Shows how to wait for CSS, image, or any other static resource to load |
CSV load and table test |
Loads CSV file and quickly compares objects against cells in a table |
Evaluate performance metrics |
Utilize Cypress to monitor a website |
Root style |
Trigger input color change that modifies CSS variable |
Select widgets |
Working with <select> elements and Select2 widgets |
Lit Elements |
Testing Lit Elements with Shadow DOM |
File download |
Download and validate CSV, Excel, text, Zip, and image files |
Page reloads |
Avoiding while loop when dealing with randomness |
Pagination |
Clicking the "Next" link until we reach the last page |
Clipboard |
Copy and paste text into the clipboard from the test |
Page source |
Get the source of the page under test |
Responsive image |
Uses cy.intercept to confirm the image loaded by the <picture> element |
Logging in recipes
Recipe |
Description |
Basic Auth |
Log in using Basic Authentication |
Single Sign On |
Log in across multiple servers or providers |
HTML Web Forms |
Log in with a basic HTML form |
XHR Web Forms |
Log in using an XHR |
CSRF Tokens |
Log in with a required CSRF token |
Json Web Tokens (JWT) |
Log in using JWT |
Using application code |
Log in by calling the application code |
Also see Authentication plugins and watch video "Organizing Tests, Logging In, Controlling State"
Preprocessors
Recipe |
Description |
grep |
Filter tests by name using Mocha-like grep syntax |
Typescript with Browserify |
Add typescript support with browserify |
Typescript with Webpack |
Add typescript support with webpack |
Flow with Browserify |
Add flow support with browserify |
Blogs
Demo recipes from the blog posts at www.cypress.io/blog
Recipe |
Description |
Application Actions |
Application actions are a replacement for Page Objects |
Direct Control of AngularJS |
Bypass the DOM and control AngularJS |
E2E API Testing |
Run your API Tests with a GUI |
E2E Snapshots |
End-to-End Snapshot Testing |
Element Coverage |
Track elements covered by tests |
Codepen.io Testing |
Test a HyperApp Codepen demo |
Testing Redux Store |
Test an application that uses Redux data store |
Vue + Vuex + REST Testing |
Test an application that uses central data store |
A11y Testing |
Accessibility testing with cypress-axe |
Automate Angular Testing |
Run Angular tests in a build environment |
React DevTools |
Loads React DevTools Chrome extension automatically |
Expect N assertions |
How to expect a certain number of assertions in a test |
Browser notifications |
How to test application that uses Notification |
Testing iframes |
Accessing elements in 3rd party iframe, spy and stub network calls from iframe |
Class decorators |
Using JavaScript class decorator to expose objects created by the application so they are reachable from tests |
Form Submit |
Removing flake from the test where a page is reloaded after form submission |
Using Day.js instead of Moment.js |
Using day.js library instead of the deprecated Cypress.moment |
Network stubbing and spying
Recipe |
Description |
Stubbing using cy.intercept |
Control network using cy.intercept API |
JS-level stubbing and spying
Recipe |
Description |
Stubbing Functions |
Use cy.spy() and cy.stub() to test function calls |
Stubbing window.fetch |
Work around the window.fetch limitation |
Stubbing window.open and console.log |
Use cy.stub() and cy.spy() to test application behavior |
Stubbing window.print |
Use cy.stub() to test window.print call made from the application |
Stubbing Google Analytics |
Use cy.stub() or cy.intercept() to test Google Analytics calls |
Spying and stubbing methods on console object |
Use cy.spy() and cy.stub() on console.log |
Stub resource loading |
Use MutationObserver to stub resource loading like img tags |
Stub navigator.cookieEnabled property |
Use cy.stub() to mock the navigator.cookieEnabled property |
Unit Testing
Recipe |
Description |
Application Code |
Import and test your own application code |
Note: looking for the React/Vue component testing recipes? Read the Introducing the Cypress Component Test Runner– new in 7.0.0 blog post.
Server Communication
Recipe |
Description |
Bootstrapping your App |
Seed your application with test data |
Seeding your Database in Node |
Seed your database with test data |
XHR assertions |
Spy and assert on application's network calls |
Visiting 2nd domain |
Visiting two different domains from two different tests and passing value from one test to another |
Pass value between specs |
Pass a value from spec to spec via the setupNodeEvents function in the Cypress configuration using cy.task |
Stream test results |
Streams each test result from the browser to the setupNodeEvents function to an external process via IPC |
Offline |
Test web application when the network is offline |
Server timing |
Report server timing results from Cypress test |
Wait for API |
Call the backend using cy.request until it responds |
Making HTTP requests |
How to use cy.request , window.fetch , and cy.task commands to make HTTP requests to the server with and without cookies |
Other Cypress Recipes
Community Recipes
Overview
- This repo is structured similar to how other "Monorepos" work.
- Each
example project
has its own Cypress configuration, tests, backend and frontend assets.
- Each of these
example projects
share a single "root" Cypress that is installed in the root node_modules
folder.
- This structure looks different from normal projects, but its the easiest way to manage multiple projects without installing Cypress independently for each one.
Installation
## install all dependencies from the root directory
npm install
Opening Cypress App
cd ./examples/testing-dom__drag-drop
# start local server
npm start &
# open Cypress App
npm run cypress:open
Running from the CLI
Same as running Cypress GUI but with cypress run
command (and any CLI arguments)
cd ./examples/testing-dom__drag-drop
# start local server
npm start &
# run Cypress tests headlessly
npm run cypress:run
### runs all example projects in specific browser
### similar to cypress run --browser <name>
npm run cypress:run -- --browser chrome
### sends test results, videos, screenshots
### to Cypress dashboard
npm run cypress:run -- --record
You can find the recording at the Cypress Dashboard linked below

Development
See Development.md