How can I pass parameter that would be needed to loop over each data represent by each test case ("it" function)?

[andikabhaskara]

Hi guys,

so I have been thinking to try to create test case to be more dynamic based on the 1st test case of how much data do I have and I tried to validate it in batches by divide it from the total data that I have. the reason behind this is to reduce the memory consumption and to mitigate the Crash error from Chromium. but, so far I have been facing a problem in my code as follow:

describe("Issue fetch data", () => {
  let totalData: number;
  let maxBatches: number;

it("fetch total data", () => {
  cy.fixture("token").then((token) => {
    // logic to fetch total data
    ).then((res) => {
      totalData = res.body.total;
      maxBatches = Math.ceil(totalData / 1000);
      Cypress.env("testdata", maxBatches)
    });
  });
});

it("check if testdata shown", () => {
  cy.log(Cypress.env("testdata")); // it does shown
});

// But when it comes to here, this test case does not shown up.
// only "fetch total data" & "check if testdata shown"

for (let i = 1; i <= Cypress.env("testdata"); i++) {
  it(`get data on batch ${i}`, () => {
    // my code logic
  });
}

The problem that I am facing is that, the loop over test case it does not appears, unless I hard coded the max limit loop. I have tried to follow the instruction in here so far no luck.

I am expecting something like this. Note: I hard coded the loop from for (let i = 1; i <= Cypress.env("testdata"); i++) to for (let i = 1; i <= 2; i++) {

Does anyone know alternative to do this? I have also tried to create another param above for loop to be the maximum limit looping, but it still doesn't works. Thank you guys!