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E2E Testing of excel file downloads with cypress
Recently while working on a project, I had to create a functionality where users can download an excel file consisting of some data.
In this process, since I am a big fan of E2E Testing with Cypress.io, I decided to write a test suite that could make sure that the excel is being downloaded correctly and also consists of the correct data that our users would expect.
This article assumes a basic understanding of cypress.
Disclaimer
If you haven’t tried e2e testing with cypress before, I would highly recommend skipping over to the `References` section and following some of the getting started guides.
📦 Installation
- Assuming you have a repo named
dashboard-ui
, create a new folder in it namede2e
. cd
into that folder and execute the following commands inside it.
3) Update the project’s scripts by opening package.json
and updating your scripts to the following:
4) You should also see some default folders and files created by cypress for you after you have installed cypress.
5) The test that we will write will go inside integration
folder.
⚙️ Functionality
For the sake of simplicity, let’s say our application only has one feature where users can click on a download template
button, which can download an excel file comprising of some data in it.
On click of the download template button a file gets downloaded which looks something like this:
🧪 E2E Testing
- Create a new file inside
integration
folder with the nameExcelDownload.spec.js
. - Inside this file our test would first start with checking for existence of our button and then we will click on it.
3) After clicking on it, the file should ideally have been downloaded and now we need to somehow read that file and check if it exists and also check if it consists of the right data in it.
4) To do that, we will first need to install another npm package which can parse the excel and convert it to a json.
5) After this, inside your plugins/index.js
file we will create a new task to parse excel.
This function will parse our excel file and convert it to json.
6) Finally let’s complete our test for excel file download
7) With this we can be sure that our excel download functionality is working as expected.
Test Execution
8) The only caveat here is how do you know the download path for your CI/CD Pipeline or how can you change that path to something else.
The solution to that is built into cypress. Again inside plugins/index.js
file we will create another task.
Here we are changing the default directory of download to a directory named excelDownloads
inside of cypress folder.
https://docs.cypress.io/api/plugins/browser-launch-api.html#Change-download-directory
💡 Conclusion
In conclusion, E2E tests are really important for every app and you should write one too because this is the closest you can get to test how an actual user will use your application.
And as Tomasz Łakomy says:
Sleep better at night with e2e tests and cypress.io
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