Test Status

Cypress Test Statuses - detailed guide and explanation

Possible Cypress Tests Statuses

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

• Passed - a test successfully completed all attempts without any exceptions or errors during its execution

• Failed - 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

• Skipped - a test was not excluded by a developer, but wasn't run by cypress runner due to an error

• Flaky - 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 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, for example:

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.