cy.pause() now pauses test while running cypress run --headed --no-exit (2024)

Cypress gives us the ability to stop the test at a spot viacy.pause() command.We can use this to stop the test before any action or assertion that is causingour tests to fail.But this command only works when we run Cypress in GUI mode and, it isignored when we run the tests in headless mode.

Before

Before version 8.6.0cy.pause() was ignored if we runour tests via cypress run --headed --no-exit command.

describe("example", () => { it("should not pause the test", () => { cy.visit("www.google.co.in"); cy.pause(); cy.contains("India"); cy.get('input[value="Google Search"'); });});

Now, if we run the above test via the cypress run --headed --no-exit command,then we notice from the image below that our test has not paused.

After

From Cypress 8.6.0 cy.pause() works the same with cypress open and cypress runcommand when --headed and --no-exit flags are passed to cypress run.

describe("example", () => { it("should pause the test", () => { cy.visit("www.google.co.in"); cy.pause(); cy.contains("India"); cy.get('input[value="Google Search"'); });});

Now when we run the above test via cypress run --headed --no-exit commandthen we notice from the image that our test has paused.

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