Table of contents

• Installation
• Usage
• cy.step()
• cy.section()
• TIP: rename all your cy.log() to cy.step() commands

Installation

Install this package:

npm i cypress-plugin-steps
# or
yarn add cypress-plugin-steps

Import the plugin into your cypress/support/e2e.js file:

import 'cypress-plugin-steps'
// or
require('cypress-plugin-steps')

TypeScript support

In most cases, types work just by installing plugin, but you can add the types to your tsconfig.json

{
  "types": ["cypress-plugin-steps"]
}

This will add types for cy.step() and cy.section() command.

Usage

This will add two new commands to your Cypress library: cy.step() and cy.section() See the details below

cy.step()

This works similarly to cy.log() command, but in addition, will add numbering to your tests:

it('numbers test steps', () => {

  cy.step('open a page')
  cy.visit('cypress/index.html')

  cy.step('find all primary colors')
  cy.get('.primary')

  cy.step('select blue')
  cy.get('.blue')

});

Error messages

If your test fails, your scenario will be added to the error message. This way your scenario will be visible right on the error screenshot that Cypress does automatically:

You can also see the scenario in terminal:

cy.section()

Works similarly to cy.step() but will be more prominent in Cypress runner (adding '---' to the log message) and will reset counter. This way you can divide your test into multiple secions.

TIP: rename all your cy.log() to cy.step() commands

You can find and replace all your cy.log() commands by matching the word log with following regex:

(?:cy\s*)?log\s*