then it calls this on the node server https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/blob/unified-desktop-gui/packages/server/lib/exec.js#L28

Why not have them all in cypress ?

since cypress is a superset of mocha, you could have it running there

Some architecture decisions that I was not part of. Probably makes sense for the architect's vision but I can't provide details on the specifics since I'm not aware 😫

Ok, so now I have passing with

exec

using

child_process

but after passing the tests I get

TypeError [ERR_INVALID_CALLBACK]: Callback must be a function. Received undefined

probably I will need to ask in a node.js community

If you do not want to use execa, which I believe is a mistake, I guess you will have to create your own version of the same tool, maybe a lighter one, and maintain it... It can be fun.

I think this is probably a question to bother your architect with

Yeah, I'll use

execa

if I cannot make to work natively with Node.js. Then, I can discuss it in the code review. Thanks for the help Bart!

no worries

Hey, i very new to cypress and i wanted to test a BE Login of a CMS. But as soon as i open the page with cypress in chrome there are JS Errors and the Login will not work. Any Idea what i can do?

My test is very simple and i get stuck at that point

describe('Test TYPO3 Backend', () => {
  it('Should show login', () => {
    cy.wait(1000)
    cy.visit('https://tld.de/typo3/')
    cy.wait(1000)
    cy.get('#t3-username')
  })
})

@User hello glad you're testing it

one thing that I found confusing at start is that cypress runs tests in an iframe. It makes test fast but it creates a parent to your current window

So if in the tested apps JS code someone have a special code looking at

parent.execCb.InfoWindow

and only protects the existence of parent then you will have this kind of issues

in your tests, though the cy.wait are unnecessary and you can remove them.

cy.visit will do all the waiting for you 😉

You should be able to click on the error in the console to show the line that errored. It should make debugging easier

This seems to by my problem. Its expecting top.TYPO3 which is acually in the sub frame? @User

Is there any chance to get that running?

So I have an interesting issue, I use Cypress in combination with

cypress-image-snapshot

which works fine as screenshots are created and diff'd as intended. But I'm running into an issue where the screenshots dimensions are different per machine, specifically our CI. Certain screenshots match, but other times it's 1 - 20 pixels in width different. So does anyone know why bounding boxes be so drastically different on various machines? I've verified that all CSS styling is indeed loaded as intended so it cant cause any layout differences.

Hi All! got a question, have anyone got to work with cypress-slack-reporter?

how do you mock / stub the window location assign in cypress ?

cy.window().then(win => {
  const url = cy.stub(win.location, 'assign')
  use url
})

it says assign can't be re assign

and we can't even doing like we were doing with jest by deleting window location. I can understand why but we don't have good alternative to it?

@User Gleb had a good video about this recently that I think might help

looking at it

its for e2e not for component testing here

it sounds a bit tricks we should have a proper way to have it

Hi, I need some help with the following: Title: Is it possible to combine a custom command which gets trigger in both

beforeEach

&

afterEach

hooks? Description: I'm currently using the

cypress-localstorage-commands

plugin: https://www.npmjs.com/package/cypress-localstorage-commands like so:

beforeEach(() => {
  cy.restoreLocalStorage();
});

afterEach(() => {
  cy.saveLocalStorage();
});

Is there a way to abstract this into a

custom command

so I don't need to add these

hooks

or reuse this code in each

spec

file?

I would suggest you place those 2 lines in a file and import them in

support/index.js

Know that you can use before, beforeEach, after and afterEach outside of describe statements in cypress