Running Your First Cypress Test On LambdaTest Platform

To demonstrate Cypress testing on the LambdaTest platform, we will use the Cypress’ Kitchen Sink Example in the demo below.

Step-1: Clone the LambdaTest-Cypress’ Kitchen Sink Example github repo and switch to the cloned directory.

git clone https://github.com/LambdaTest/Cypress-Cloud.git
cd cypress-example-kitchensink

Step-2: Setup the LambdaTest-Cypress CLI and configure the configuration file, as shown in the pre-requisites before. A file named lambdatest-config.json is generated in your project using the below command:

lambdatest-cypress init

Here, we have used the below configuration as default and generated it in the lambdatest-config.json file. You need to set up the authentication by using LambdaTest credentials. You can check here for more details about authentication.

lambdatest-config.json

{
   "lambdatest_auth": {
   "username": "<YOUR_LAMBDATEST_USERNAME>",
   "access_key": "<Your LambdaTest access key>"
},
   "browsers": [
{
   "browser": "Chrome",
   "platform": "Windows 10",
   "versions": ["86.0"]
},
{
   "browser": "Firefox",
   "platform": "Windows 10",
   "versions": ["82.0"]
}
],
   "run_settings": {
   "cypress_config_file": "cypress.json",
   "build_name": "build-name",
   "parallels": 1,
   "specs": "./*.spec.js",
   "ignore_files": "",
   "npm_dependencies": {
   "cypress": "6.1.0"
},
   "feature_file_suppport": false
},
   "tunnel_settings": {
   "tunnel": false,
   "tunnelName": null
}
}

Also in run-settings section you need to specify the path of your spec.js file on which you want to run the test on. Here we will pass the path of a sample to do spec.js file for our demo.

"specs": "./cypress/integration/1-getting-started/todo.spec.js"

Note

In this demo, all occurences of http://localhost:8080 have been replaced with https://example.cypress.io to prevent running the Cypress tests locally. Alternatively, if you want to run your tests locally, refer to the Run locally section below.

Step-3: Execute your tests using the following command in the terminal:

lambdatest-cypress run