Test Automation Stack

In any project it is obvious that there are more than one environment. Typically like local, QA, Staging, Production.

The test data usually differs across these environments based on the configuration of such environments. Hence, When we develop our Cypress tests, we need to develop in flexible way such that we can easily switch the test data between environments.

In Cypress all our test data is kept under fixture folder. The easiest way to design to accommodate your tests to read test data for various environments is to create a test file by Appending environment name like below.

Once we create our test data files like above way, we then can read these file using cy.fixture(), where we append the file name with the value read from the environment variable like below.

The next step is to set the environment variable from the command line or from your npm script like below

npx cypress open --env ENVIRONMENT=prod

Example git repo can be found here https://github.com/gurudattgd04/cypress-example Please fork/Clone and play around.