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Open Cypress browser when running from Jenkins

I created in Jenkins a freestyle project in which I wanted to run Cypress.

In the command line I used this command line:

npx cypress run --browser chrome --headed  --spec  "cypress/integration/examples/actions.spec.js" --config pageLoadTimeout=10000

The issue that it runs silent mode, there is no browser that is open, and perform test actions.

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What should I do so that the browser appears while executing the test? Thanks in advance.

Solution

  • CI tools like Jenkins aren't designed to open browser.

    That is why Cypress offers two ways to run it:

    • For local dev/debug: cypress open
    • For CI/automatisation : cypress run

    You are using it the right way.

    Interesting things for CI are screenshots and videos.