Writing Our First Test

Now that we are familiar with Cypress, we’re ready to write a test.

Delete the cypress/integration/examples directory with all the existing Cypress tests. Then, restart Cypress with rake cypress:open. This gives us the Cypress window with a message saying we have no tests. Let’s write the first line of a new test. Create a file named cypress/schedule/schedule_tests.ts. As soon as you save it, the Cypress window changes to show that file. If you start to “Run all specs,” you get the test runner with a message that no tests are found in the file.

Let’s start writing the test: