Does anyone have a script to split cypress tests into separate files?

[gajus]

According to documentation, it statements are not performant. The example given in the documentation is:

describe('my form', () => {
  before(() => {
    cy.visit('/users/new')
    cy.get('#first').type('johnny')
  })

  it('has validation attr', () => {
    cy.get('#first').should('have.attr', 'data-validation', 'required')
  })

  it('has active class', () => {
    cy.get('#first').should('have.class', 'active')
  })

  it('has formatted first name', () => {
    cy.get('#first').should('have.value', 'Johnny') // capitalized first letter
  })
})

Unfortunately, we do have many many it statements per test suite, and it is suspected to be the cause of freezing tests.

Does anyone have a script to split cypress tests into separate files?, i.e. the above would become 3 separate files:

describe('my form', () => {
  before(() => {
    cy.visit('/users/new')
    cy.get('#first').type('johnny')
  })

  it('has validation attr', () => {
    cy.get('#first').should('have.attr', 'data-validation', 'required')
  })
})

describe('my form', () => {
  before(() => {
    cy.visit('/users/new')
    cy.get('#first').type('johnny')
  })

  it('has validation attr', () => {
    cy.get('#first').should('have.attr', 'data-validation', 'required')
  })
})

describe('my form', () => {
  before(() => {
    cy.visit('/users/new')
    cy.get('#first').type('johnny')
  })

  it('has active class', () => {
    cy.get('#first').should('have.class', 'active')
  })
})

and would this even alleviate the issue?

We would still like to maintain these tests as large test suites in our source control, but split them up before running tests.

[geromegrignon]

Hi @gajus,

Cypress Best Practices regarding it are about making longer tests to avoid atomic test suites.

It is common for tests in Cypress to issue 30+ commands.