Automation Testing

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

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

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

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.

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Cypress workflow triggers automatically after each PR deployment. Cypress report will be look like this

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