Cypress Test Debugging with cypress-terminal-report

If you’ve ever worked as an SDET and used Cypress for test automation, you’ve likely faced this pain: running your test suite from the terminal and only seeing pass/fail statuses in the logs.

The real frustration begins when a test fails. You have to wait until the entire test suite finishes running before you can investigate what went wrong. There are no detailed logs in real-time, leaving you guessing which exact step caused the failure and why.

This not only wastes time but also increases costs, as debugging becomes a cycle of rerunning tests just to trace back the root cause.

Enter cypress-terminal-report, a Cypress plugin designed to eliminate these inefficiencies. This plugin enables detailed logging in the terminal, showing:

• The exact step where the test failed.
• The reason for the failure.
• Contextual information in real-time while the test suite is running.

With cypress-terminal-report, you gain the power to identify and fix issues instantly, saving valuable time and reducing the overall cost of debugging and test maintenance.

How to Configure cypress-terminal-report

Step 1: Install the Plugin

Run the following command to install the package:

npm install cypress-terminal-report --save-dev        

Step 2: Configure cypress-terminal-report in Cypress

Update cypress.config.js

const installLogsPrinter = require('cypress-terminal-report').install;

module.exports = (on, config) => {
  installLogsPrinter(on);
  return config;
};        

Configure support/e2e.js or support/index.js

import 'cypress-terminal-report/support';        

Sample Output after (cypress-terminal-report)

That’s it! Your Cypress tests will now provide detailed logs in the terminal as they execute.

Debugging Cypress tests shouldn’t be a waiting game. The cypress-terminal-report plugin provides real-time visibility into your tests, letting SDETs focus on what matters: delivering high-quality software faster and more efficiently.

So, if you’re tired of waiting for test suites to complete just to see where things went wrong, this plugin is a must-have for your Cypress projects.

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