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  • u
    only now terminal-log plugin isn't working but ignoring that for now
  • f
    thank you so much again, I still disturb you for one thing
  • f
    I have to run the tests from the terminal, using the command npm run cy: run, and I would need to see console errors from the terminal somehow, or get a screen like when a test fails. is it possible to do it somehow?
  • f
    like see the cy.stub list in the terminal
  • s
    Hi All, I am noticing that latest Chrome browser 93 is crashing with cypress. Is there a workaround to this?
  • s
    I have 8.3.1 installed
  • s
    running against firefox 90 is working fine
  • k
    Is there anyone here that might help me with conditional testing with cypress? Or know of a workaround?
  • b
    @User what do you call conditional testing?
  • b
    - Tests that run in your CI only when files are changed? - Tests that depend on the result of another tests? - Tests with conditional branches?
  • b
    @User what error do you see?
  • k
    I have a lesson that I need to play through. The problem that I am seeing is that all the questions are random and I don't know what order they are in. I added conditional testing to see if there are certain elements on the page. Everywhere I've looked it says this is an anti pattern and not recommended. Are there other workarounds that might be better that I could use?
  • b
    Where do the questions come from? And API you could mock? A library stored in the state that you could manually set?
  • b
    Random stuff is hard to test 😉
  • b
    So let's test everything else, then introduce the random thing
  • k
    Seriously though! so hard. I know that the developers on the team don't want the questions to be mocked. Looking at the request there is 1 request for each question. Each section has 5 questions.
  • k
    I was trying to mock the activity information but I need to test the lesson with a new user every time the test runs. So I wouldn't be able to mock some of the requests because they require User and session ID.
  • k
    Is it possible to have dynamic data in a mock?
  • b
    it is possible but I am not sure you want to. Each test you write, has to assert stable statements like "can you find the "My Question" text in the page" or "is there a button I can click on". You could intercept the requests and test that what you intercepted corresponds to what is displayed, but this needs the intervention of the server. I would separate the rendering test from the integration tests
  • b
    I would write one test to see if with a determined set of questions returned by the API is rendering as you would expect
  • b
    Then another test with no mocking of anything and check that "it renders without errors"
  • b
    This way you can validate both the rendering and the API call
  • k
    That makes sense thanks! So to test if I can answer the questions would you recommend that I mock the questions that I receive and test that I can submit those?
  • k
    and then have a test to make sure everything renders without errors?
  • b
    Exactly
  • b
    You can even test that you can answer the first question you find with an answer, ignoring the correctness of the answer
  • b
    but for the conditional answers, I would mock a set of questions
  • b
    It will make your tests more stable and more targeted. From experience, it is usually when they give the most info
  • k
    Sounds great thanks so much for your help. I just got moved to a team where were starting to use Cypress from scratch so I'm getting used to best Practices.
  • r
    i have a login spec that I want to reuse on other tests, how can I address that?
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