In Cypress.io is there anyway to control the test run?

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My 'example-spec.js' tests under the integration folder contain 15 tests, each time the Cypress.io will run all the 15 tests written in the 'example-spec.js'. I would like to choose and specify 'which' test needs to run, maybe 1 or 2 test at a time. The reason maybe I don't want to wait to see the output of all test while adding a 'new' test. Is there any way to control the test run in Cypress.io?

Does this answer your question? [Cypress: run only one test](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55054337/cypress-run-only-one-test) — kuceb, May 27 '20 at 19:03

score 19 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 02 '21 at 13:39

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I don't know if there's a way to do it from the user interface, but you can use mocha methods to run only chosen tests by:

Replacing it with xit tests you want to omit
Using it.skip on tests you want to omit
Using it.only on single test you want to run

To skip entire context/describe suite use context.skip() or describe.skip() which are identical.

edited Sep 02 '21 at 13:39

Valera Tumash

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answered Aug 15 '18 at 09:08

Krzysztof Grzybek

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Awesome!, this is working. I too haven't seen any other option to disable the test from UI – soccerway Aug 15 '18 at 10:19
How the same will be achieved in Cucumber Cypress? – Ashok kumar Ganesan Sep 14 '21 at 10:24
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also, for whole `describe` block, `xdescribe` worked for me – Matt Leonowicz Mar 22 '23 at 14:48

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 29 '19 at 16:11

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Use it.only() and it.skip()

See cypress documentation: https://docs.cypress.io/guides/core-concepts/writing-and-organizing-tests.html#Excluding-and-Including-Tests

answered Jul 29 '19 at 16:11

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score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 02 '19 at 15:44

I just tried this it.skip and that didn't work for me.

But using this.skip(); is working a lot better.

it('test page', function () {
    // skip this test for now
    this.skip();
    cy.visit('http://example.com/')
    cy.contains('test page').click()
    cy.url()
        .should('include', '/test-page/')
})

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