How to run a test multiple times with Cypress to prove it is stable

The series "Pinches of Cypress" is getting track!

Today you will learn how to ensure that your tests behave the same way when run multiple times.

Cypress.io is a fantastic testing framework!

It packs together with it several other famous libraries to make life easier for its users, that is, your life!

One of these libraries is lodash.

Just use

Cypress._

And you can invoke any feature of lodash. 🤩

Among the various features of lodash, one that “fits like a glove” for the problem we want to solve is .times.

An example would ease the understanding, right?

Here we go!

Cypress._.times(5, () => {
  it.only("successfully submits the form", () => {
    const customer = {
      firstName: "John",
      lastName: "Doe",
      email: "john-doe@example.com"
    };

    cy.fillMandatoryFields(customer);
    cy.contains("Send").click();

    cy.get(".success p")
      .should("contain", "Form successfully submitted.");
  });
});

After running the above test, I have the following result.

Sample app
  ✓ successfully submits the form (1725ms)
  ✓ successfully submits the form (1212ms)
  ✓ successfully submits the form (1200ms)
  ✓ successfully submits the form (1195ms)
  ✓ successfully submits the form (1256ms)


5 passing (8s)

As you can see, my test looks stable and passed 5 times in a row. Yay! 🎉

Problem solved!

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This post was originally published in Portuguese on the Talking About Testing blog.

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