# Test Status

### Possible Cypress Tests Statuses

A cypress test can be in one of the following states:

* <mark style="color:blue;">**Passed**</mark> - a test successfully completed all attempts without any exceptions or errors during its execution
* <mark style="color:red;">**Failed**</mark> - a test that triggered an exception or one of its assertions failed for all of its attempts
* **Ignored / Pending** - a test was excluded by a developer, e.g. `it.skip()` and was excluded by cypress runner
* <mark style="color:orange;">**Skipped**</mark> - a test was not excluded by a developer, but wasn't run by cypress runner due to an error
* <mark style="background-color:purple;">**Flaky**</mark> - a test that passed after a few failing attempts

### Passing Tests

A passed test was successfully executed by cypress runner, including all `before` and `beforeEach` expressions. During its execution, the test runner didn't encounter any timeouts, exceptions or failed assertions.

Please note, for tests with multiple attempts, if the last attempt was successful, the whole test will be marked as "Passed" but "Flaky". See [Flaky Tests](/concepts/flaky-tests.md) for details.

### Failing Tests

A failing test is a test that has either triggered an exception, failed assertion or a timeout during the execution of `before`, `beforeEach` or the test body for each of its attempts.

By default, when a test fails, Cypress will take a screenshot and a video recording capturing the failure. Both will be shown in the test details page.

### **Ignored / Pending Tests**

`Ignored/pending` tests are tests that were:

* explicitly marked by a developer to be excluded, e.g. `it.skip(),` `describe.skip()` or `xit()`
* a test that is not implemented - i.e. a test that has no "body". For example, `it('nothing is here')`
* a test suite that was filtered out in [test/suite configuration](https://docs.cypress.io/guides/core-concepts/writing-and-organizing-tests#Test-Configuration), for example:

```javascript
describe('Skip in Chrome', { browser: '!chrome' }, () => {/* ... */})
```

### Skipped Tests

A skipped test is a test that **was supposed to run but has been skipped** because of a runtime error.

One of the most common examples is a situation where there's a crash in `beforeEach.` After unsuccessfully running the first test and recognizing an error in `beforeEach,` Cypress runner "skips" the rest of the tests because they would fail due to the same error.


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