CHEFS uses CYPRESS for test automation. Cypress is a UI testing tool, which is used for functional testing of web applications. It uses JavaScript framework and can test anything that runs in browser.
Prerequisites
Node.js needs to be installed on the machine before cypress installation
Set up
Make sure you have installed Node.js and go to project path /common-hosted-form-service/tests/functional and run the following commands to install cypress
npm init npm install cypress --save-dev
Cypress Tests
Cypress tests are stored inside the folder /common-hosted-form-service/tests/functional/cypress/e2e
For headless cypress runs, go to project root /common-hosted-form-service/tests/functional and run the following command
npm run test
To open the cypress interface and the tests from there , go to project root /common-hosted-form-service/tests/functional and run the following command and can see cypress test scripts inside e2e folder
npx cypress open
Environment variables
All the env variables are stored in cypress.config.js file in the project path /common-hosted-form-service/tests/functional
Cypress workflow
Cypress workflow file cypress-ci.yaml will be in the project path /common-hosted-form-service/.github/workflows
Chefs uses test IDIR and password as GitHub secrets to run cypress tests. The secrets are stored in the following manner. Secret variable KEYCLOAKUSERNAME is test IDIR username and KEYCLOAKPASSWORD is test IDIR password.
Cypress workflow triggers automatically after each PR deployment. Cypress report for the successful run will be like this
Cypress report with the failed tests will be look like below with screenshots available to download and view where the test fails
