Add option to run specs outside of cypress directory

[nwshane]

• Cypress Version: 1.1.3

Is this a Feature or Bug?

Feature

Current behavior:

Cypress only runs spec files within the directory cypress/integration.

Desired behavior:

The option to run files that match a certain glob, e.g. *.spec.js, outside of the cypress/integration directory.

Reasoning:

It's really nice to be able to place unit tests in the same directory as the module they are testing. When a new developer dives into a code base that colocates modules and their unit tests, they don't have to go searching for the tests in another directory.

Here's an article about the advantages of colocating unit tests: http://islovely.co/posts/colocating-unit-tests/

I couldn't find any documentation related to this feature, so I'm wondering: is this already possible? If not, could we add this feature?

[brian-mann]

Cypress is specialized for e2e and integration tests. While you can do unit tests, it's not really our thing.

Globbing support is already on the roadmap here. #681

I'm going to mark this issue as wontfix but we'll keep it around when we come back to first class unit testing support.

[nwshane]

@brian-mann Okay, thanks for the explanation!

[jaydeep987]

@brian-mann
So it's already 2019, is it still working ?
--spec option is there, but why it behave strange?
cypress run --spec src/app/ui-components/button/__test/index.spec.js
and it says Can't run because no spec files were found.

I dont' get this

[jaydeep987]

@brian-mann
So it's already 2019, is it still working ?
--spec option is there, but why it behave strange?
cypress run --spec src/app/ui-components/button/__test/index.spec.js
and it says Can't run because no spec files were found.

I dont' get this

Ok I solved this.

I found that it is still unclear because probably lack of documentation.
So people who are still facing issues, can refer this: #2256

[maxmckenzie]

For my use case i needed

  "testFiles": "**/*.{feature,spec.js}",
  "integrationFolder": ".",
  "ignoreTestFiles": "**/node_modules/**/*{feature,spec.js}",

in my cypress.json config and it worked a charm.

I want to run integration tests from the cypress directory. But then place cypress unit tests next to the specific code file i am unit testing.

https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress-example-recipes/tree/master/examples/unit-testing__application-code