Expand/collapse all children in spec list (and a few more things)

[j1000]

What would you like?

Prior to Cypress 10 the spec list had a few abilities for expanding/collapsing that have disappeared with Cypress 10. Rather than go into details about it maybe I should just sum up my requests:

1. Ability to expand/collapse all children in the spec list
2. Button to clear the current filter in the spec list
3. Cookie (or something) to retain the filter if the browser closes (browser relaunches are necessary to mitigate memory leak issues)
4. Light/dark theme switch for the spec list and test runner
5. Ability to expand/collapse all children in the test runner

Why is this needed?

This would speed up interactions with the spec list, which would speed up debugging.

The expand/collapse all children feature would benefit the test runner for those of us who group their commands like so:

Other

No response

[adamwhitlock1]

I would also like the ability to collapse all nested tests. Navigating to the test manually is really tough for me since the E2E suite that I work in has a huge amount of tests that are deeply nested.

[wongchichong]

The collapsible setting is a must because it increasing performance for >3K test cases.
Cypress browser DOM updating really slow.
From the video, I just switch to "Testing Preference" to avoid DOM updating, test speed increase 1000 times

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[jaikumar-tj]

Any update on this?

[marktnoonan]

Hi! Thanks for these suggestions, just adding a few notes as some of these have been implemented or have workarounds. This issue can still be used to track the ones that haven't been implemented.

Here's the status of these as of Cypress 10.6.0:

Ability to expand/collapse all children in the spec list

Not implemented.

Button to clear the current filter in the spec list

This is present now (X in the search bar)

Cookie (or something) to retain the filter if the browser closes (browser relaunches are necessary to mitigate memory leak issues)

The filter term is saved for each project now.

Light/dark theme switch for the spec list and test runner

I have a workaround for the short term, a plugin for an optional light theme for the Command Log and the Inline Specs List in the spec runner: https://github.com/marktnoonan/cypress-light-theme

Ability to expand/collapse all children in the test runner

Not implemented.