Dynamically generate tests in Cypress to test your APIs
When you are using Cypress to test your APIs, you might face a scenario where you have a config or properties file and you want to use it to write your tests. But you don’t have to write a test for each and every item in the config file. Cypress lets your iterate over your config file and dynamically create tests at run-time.
Let’s assume we have a config file like this in JSON format.
{
"api1": {
"kpi": "api1",
"url": "https://localhost/api/1"
},
"api2": {
"kpi": "api2",
"url": "https://localhost/api/2"
},
"api3": {
"kpi": "api3",
"url": "https://localhost/api/3"
},
"api4": {
"kpi": "api4",
"url": "https://localhost/api/4"
},
"api5": {
"kpi": "api5",
"url": "http://localhost/api/5"
}
}I’m going to create tests for each of the entries here.
Object.keys(input).forEach((key) => {
it("Testing - " + key, function () {
cy.fixture('responses.json').then((responses) => {
console.log("RES --- " + JSON.stringify(responses));
cy.log(key)
cy.log(input[key])
let api = input[key];
cy.request
({
method: 'GET',
url: api.url,
headers: {
'authorization': 'Bearer ' + token
}
}).then((response) => {
cy.log(response.body);
expect(JSON.stringify(response.body.payload.data)).equal(JSON.stringify(responses[key].data));
})
})
})
})In your Cypress console, you can see the tests running for each entry in config JSON.
Testing api1 Testing api2 Testing api3 Testing api4 Testing api5
