e2e Cypress Automation Test to launch specific video from YouTube.

Setup & Configuration on Windows platform. Some of these steps are windows specific and not required if Cypress IDE is already setup.

Installations.

• installed node.js from here.
• installed various dependencies that were part of the routine.
• installed visual Studio code for Windows.

Configuration Issues

• Could not run the scripts on Windows as policy was set to Restricted. Changed the policy to Unrestricted. See details how to do here.
• Modified the Windows firewall to allow cypress.exe thru. Check your Windows firewall on how to allow an app to go thru.
• When I ran the test first time, I got the error "EEXIST: file already exists - cannot start server on Windows".
  • Error is reported here
  • Added "test": "cypress open" under scripts
  • Run the following in the cli npm run test

Steps to run the test suite.

• Make sure you have Cypress compatible browser installed on your computer. Browsers listed here.
• Backup your existing json files in the project folder, and then clone the repo to the same location as your node_modules folder of Cypress framework.
• In the CLI, navigate to root of the project folder and run the following command to start the Cypress Server.
• ./node_modules/.bin/cypress open
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• This should invoke Cypress application to the frontend, and you will see file called youtube.spec.js file.
• click on this youtube.spec.js file so Cypress can invoke the browser to run this test.
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• Once the test suite is invoked, it will run and then finish successfully.
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