I wonder if its possible to set up for example variable with function for login on global level in cypress. So I could for example on start of every test write " login; " and then just continue from when I am already inside app.

Same thing for " logout;" function.

I wonder if its possible to set up for example variable with function for login on global level in cypress. So I could for example on start of every test write " login; " and then just continue from when I am already inside app.

Same thing for " logout;" function.

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• cypress

2 Answers 2

You can achieve login persistence using the cy.session() mand.

From the example documentation,

beforeEach(() => {
  cy.session('login', () => {
    cy.visit('/login')
    cy.get('[data-test=name]').type(name)
    cy.get('[data-test=password]').type('s3cr3t')
    cy.get('form').contains('Log In').click()
    cy.url().should('contain', '/login-successful')
  })
})

Put this code into cypress/support/e2e.js to ensure it runs before every test in every spec (when using the cacheAcrossSpecs=true option in configuration).

NOTE the login only performs once, cy.session() manages the stored credentials automatically for you.

You can achieve this by using cypress custom mands. Here is the doc - https://docs.cypress.io/api/cypress-api/custom-mands.html

You can create custom mands under cypress/support/mands.js

An example from the cypress doc of how a login function can look like:

Cypress.Commands.add('typeLogin', (user) => {
  cy.get('input[name=email]')
    .type(user.email)

  cy.get('input[name=password]')
    .type(user.password)
})

Now in the tests, you use the above custom mand as:

cy.typeLogin({ email: '[email protected]', password: 'Secret1' })