I recently had to use Cypress to test a page that had various dropdown options, and some of those options might be excluded if already selected. Being a UK Gov page flow, the user could only select a single option from the drop down, then click continue, and if they wanted to add another they … Read more
If you’re working with Cypress and Jest in the same project, TypeScript may throw errors that the standard Jest assertions are not valid types on the Assertion class. The error I get looks like this: Though in the IDE, even before running the tests, you will likely see something like this: This is a pretty … Read more
If you’re using Cypress with TypeScript in your project, it’s possible you may encounter the following error message when trying to run Cypress: And how this looks in Cypress itself: The issue is fairly easy to resolve. Simply delete all the conflicting configuration files. In my case I wanted to keep cypress.config.ts, and so remove … Read more
I’m working on a UK Government project at the moment that has a lot of Cypress tests. The way they are set up is not exactly to my taste, but I mention it because it is relevant to the way the code will be structured below. However, the method I use to remove lines from … Read more