What is @testing-library/cypress?
@testing-library/cypress is an extension of the Testing Library family for use with Cypress, a popular end-to-end testing framework. It provides a set of custom commands for interacting with DOM elements in a way that resembles how users interact with your application, making tests more readable and maintainable.
What are @testing-library/cypress's main functionalities?
Querying Elements
This feature allows you to query DOM elements using the same queries available in @testing-library/dom. For example, you can find a button with the text 'Submit' and click it.
cy.findByText('Submit').click();
Assertions
You can make assertions on elements found using Testing Library queries. This example checks if a button with the role 'button' and name 'submit' is visible.
cy.findByRole('button', { name: /submit/i }).should('be.visible');
Custom Commands
The package provides custom commands like `findByLabelText` to interact with form elements. This example types 'myUsername' into an input field labeled 'Username'.
cy.findByLabelText('Username').type('myUsername');
Other packages similar to @testing-library/cypress
cypress-testing-library
cypress-testing-library is another package that integrates Testing Library queries with Cypress. It offers similar functionalities to @testing-library/cypress, allowing you to use Testing Library's queries within Cypress tests.
cypress-axe
cypress-axe is a plugin for Cypress that integrates the axe-core accessibility testing engine. While it focuses on accessibility testing rather than user interaction, it complements @testing-library/cypress by ensuring your application is accessible.
cypress-cucumber-preprocessor
cypress-cucumber-preprocessor allows you to write Cypress tests using the Gherkin syntax. While it doesn't provide the same querying capabilities as @testing-library/cypress, it offers a different approach to writing readable and maintainable tests.
Cypress Testing Library
Simple and complete custom Cypress commands and utilities that encourage good
testing practices.
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The problem
You want to use DOM Testing Library
methods in your
Cypress tests.
This solution
This allows you to use all the useful
DOM Testing Library
methods in your tests.
Table of Contents
Installation
This module is distributed via npm which is bundled with node and
should be installed as one of your project's devDependencies
:
npm install --save-dev @testing-library/cypress
With TypeScript
Typings should be added as follows in tsconfig.json
:
{
"compilerOptions": {
"types": ["cypress", "@testing-library/cypress"]
}
}
Intellisense for JavaScript with VS Code
If you're not using TypeScript, you use VS Code, and want to have
code-completion with the methods from this library, simply add the following
line to your project's root-level jsconfig.json
file:
{
"include": ["node_modules/cypress", "./cypress/**/*.js"]
}
Usage
Cypress Testing Library
extends Cypress' cy
command.
Add this line to your project's cypress/support/commands.js
:
import '@testing-library/cypress/add-commands'
You can now use all of DOM Testing Library
's findBy
and findAllBy
commands.
See the DOM Testing Library
docs for reference
You can find
all Library definitions here.
To configure DOM Testing Library, use the following custom command:
cy.configureCypressTestingLibrary(config)
To show some simple examples (from
cypress/integration/find.spec.js):
cy.findAllByText('Button Text').should('exist')
cy.findAllByText('Non-existing Button Text').should('not.exist')
cy.findAllByLabelText('Label text', {timeout: 7000}).should('exist')
cy.findAllByText('Jackie Chan').click()
cy.get('form').findAllByText('Button Text').should('exist')
Differences from DOM Testing Library
Cypress Testing Library
supports both jQuery elements and DOM nodes. This is
necessary because Cypress uses jQuery elements, while DOM Testing Library
expects DOM nodes. When you chain a query, it will get the first DOM node from
subject
of the collection and use that as the container
parameter for the
DOM Testing Library
functions.
get*
and query*
queries are disabled. find*
queries do not use the Promise
API of DOM Testing Library
, but instead forward to the get*
queries and use
Cypress' built-in retryability using error messages from get*
APIs to forward
as error messages if a query fails.
findAll*
can select more than one element and is closer in functionality to
how Cypress built-in commands work. find*
commands will fail if more than one
element is found that matches the criteria which is not how built-in Cypress
commands work, but is provided for closer compatibility to other Testing
Libraries.
Cypress handles actions when there is only one element found. For example, the
following will work without having to limit to only 1 returned element. The
cy.click
will automatically fail if more than 1 element is returned by the
findAllByText
:
cy.findAllByText('Some Text').click()
If you intend to enforce only 1 element is returned by a selector, the following
examples will both fail if more than one element is found.
cy.findAllByText('Some Text').should('have.length', 1)
cy.findByText('Some Text').should('exist')
Config testIdAttribute
If you would like to change the default testId from data-testId
to
data-test-id
, add to your project's cypress/support/index.js
:
import {configure} from '@testing-library/cypress'
configure({testIdAttribute: 'data-test-id'})
It accepts all configurations listed in
DOM testing library.
Other Solutions
I'm not aware of any, if you are please make a pull request and add it
here!
Contributors
Thanks goes to these people (emoji key):
This project follows the all-contributors specification.
Contributions of any kind welcome!
LICENSE
MIT