Shared tests for multiple websites/repos

[idevelopbugs]

Hi!

I'm trying to figure out the best way to reuse tests across multiple websites. We have a big platform with react components and import these into the sites. But each web has it's own cypress setup with testscripts, and they pretty much look the same.

The ideal scenario would be to have 1 repo with tests which could easily be imported to each web. Im thinking about maybe having all tests in a repo, then importing them as "commands", and then just executing them in each web by cy.platformTest('someSelector'). But it still feels like there should be a better way. Any ideas?

[lmiller1990]

Do you want to reuse actual tests (like .spec.js) or just some shared code?

The way I've handled this is custom commands (or custom functions imported to support/index.js. We had something like @my-org/cypress-shared might contain a commands.js:

Cypress.command.add('clickOnButton', text => {
  cy.get('button').contains(text).click()
})

Then just imported this to our support/index.js:

// shared commands
import '@my-org/cypress-shared/commands.js'

Is this what you mean? I'm not sure there is anything Cypress specific about sharing code.

[idevelopbugs]

Thanks for the reply! I was thinking about reusing actual tests and importing them from an outside repo and not just "helper functions" as the ones typically used in commands.

[bahmutov]

Not sure what you mean by "reusing actual tests", something like https://www.cypress.io/blog/2019/12/06/use-meaningful-smoke-tests/ ?