Fixtures and Integration
Learn the purpose of the fixture and integration folders, and how they can help us write more stable and organized tests.
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When creating a test suite for a web application, we have to consider network connection fails. Any function that relies on fetching data from a server or requires sending data to the server has side effects. And side effects can easily break tests.
Our network request can come back either successfully or with a failure, or anything in between. There are just too many status codes to keep in mind. To work around this, Cypress introduces a folder called “fixtures”.
What are fixtures?
Fixtures are pieces of static data that can be used inside our test cases whenever we need to stub a network request.
This way, we can eliminate any side effects, and ensure that our test cases are deterministic. We can also use them to match our data against a fixed set without cluttering the actual test cases.
Configuring fixtures
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