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What you'll learn​

  • How to run Cypress tests with CircleCI as part of CI/CD pipeline
  • How to parallelize Cypress test runs within CircleCI

The Cypress CircleCI Orb is the official CircleCI Orb of Cypress. Although you do not need to use the orb to run your tests in CircleCI, the benefit of using the orb is that it allows you to easily install, cache and run Cypress tests in CircleCI with less effort. The orb abstracts common steps necessary for running your tests in CircleCI in order to make your life as a developer better!

Basic Setup​

The Cypress CircleCI Orb is a piece of configuration set in your .circleci/config.yml file to correctly install, cache and run Cypress with very little effort.

For the Orb Quick Start Guide and usage cases, view the CircleCI Cypress orb documentation.

A typical project can have:

version: 2.1
orbs:
  # "cypress-io/cypress@3" installs the latest published
  # version "s.x.y" of the orb. We recommend you then use
  # the strict explicit version "cypress-io/[email protected]"
  # to lock the version and prevent unexpected CI changes
  cypress: cypress-io/cypress@3
workflows:
  build:
    jobs:
      - cypress/run # "run" job comes from "cypress" orb
          start-command: 'npm run start'

That's it! Your repo's dependencies will be installed and cached and your Cypress tests will run in CircleCI

Parallelization​

A more complex project that needs to install dependencies, start a server, and run tests across 4 CI machines in parallel may have:

version: 2.1
orbs:
  cypress: cypress-io/cypress@3
workflows:
  build:
    jobs:
      - cypress/run:
          start-command: 'npm run start'
          cypress-command: 'npx cypress run --parallel --record --group all tests'
          parallelism: 4

Using the orb brings simplicity and static checks of parameters to CircleCI configuration.

You can find additional examples at our orb examples page.

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Real World Example New​

The Cypress Real World App (RWA) uses the Circle CI Cypress Orb, Codecov Orb, and Windows Orb to test over 300 test cases in parallel across 25 machines, multiple browsers, multiple device sizes, and multiple operating systems with full code-coverage reporting and Cypress Cloud recording.

Check out the full RWA Circle CI configuration.

Additional Examples​

Component Testing Example​

version: 2.1
orbs:
  cypress: cypress-io/cypress@3
workflows:
  test:
    jobs:
      - cypress/run:
          cypress-command: 'npx cypress run --component'

Yarn Example​

version: 2.1
orbs:
  cypress: cypress-io/cypress@3
workflows:
  test:
    jobs:
      - cypress/run:
          package-manager: 'yarn'
          start-command: 'yarn start'

Chrome Example​

Cypress uses Electron by default to run your tests. The install-browsers flag is used to install Firefox and Chrome to run your tests. This is only needed if you are passing the --browser flag in your cypress-command

version: 2.1
orbs:
  cypress: cypress-io/cypress@3
workflows:
  test:
    jobs:
      - cypress/run:
          install-browsers: true
          start-command: 'npm run start'
          cypress-command: 'npx cypress run --browser chrome'

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