Integrates Cypress.io under the common Intellij test framework.
As the plugin depends on JavaLanguage and NodeJS plugins, so it requires a commercial version of IDEA (Ultimate, WebStorm etc)
Plugin can be installed from the Jetbrains Marketplace. Open 'Settings/Preferences -> Plugins' menu item and type 'Cypress' in the search bar. See here for details.
Brief video overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gjjy0RQeBw
Plugin introduces a dedicated Cypress run configuration type You can create a run config from either file view (directory, spec file) or directly from the code
file view | code view |
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Notice that cypress-intellij-reporter introduces mocha dependency that enables the mocha test framework in IDEA automatically. So please do not confuse Cypress and Mocha run types:
Simply start your configuration and take a deep breath. You can watch test status live on the corresponding tab:
You can navigate from a test entry in the test tab to the source code of this test just by clicking on it.
- No rerun failed tests only feature because Cypress is unable to run tests defined by a grep pattern
- Run a single test feature is implemented by modifying the sources on the fly and mark the test with .only modifier automatically. So it may work incorrectly when a test spec already contains '.only' tests
Video overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIo62E1OMO0
It supports all the common IDE debug features: step-by-step execution, run to cursor, variable examining, expression evaluation, breakpoints (including conditional), etc.
It works for both headed and headless modes as well as in the interactive mode
- Firefox is not currently supported.
- In some rare cases IDE can't map sources correctly so breakpoints will not hit in this case. Use debugger statement to suspend the execution
- IDE need some time (usually less than a second) to attach breakpoints to Chrome. So your breakpotins could not be hit when test case executed fast.
- Ansynchronous Cypress commands cannot be debugged as they would be synchrounous. See here for details and workarounds.
Plugin has a shortcut action to open test screenshot from the test tree view:
If a test holds screenshots in the folder, action will either suggest selecting from the list or pick up the latest screenshot.
This behavior can be configured in the settings:
Starting from version 1.6, the plugin can start a cucumber test.
The exectuion depends on the cypress-cucumber-preprocessor so you need to add the following dependency to your project:
npm install --save-dev cypress-cucumber-preprocessor
To start a single scenario, the plugin will automatically add (and remove at the end) a @focus
tag.
./gradlew buildPlugin
Either start IDE bundled with plugin via gradle:
./gradlew runIdea
Or install built plugin manually in the Settings->Plugin section of IDEA