Hey 👋 Welcome to the Cypress tests for Backstage. They're designed to be run against the packages/app folder in the main repo, and be some form of smoke tests to make sure that we don't break any core functionality.
They run part of the PR build, and are triggered from the .github/workflows/tugboat.yml file.
The main app gets built up part of a Tugboat Build, which when complete, sends a deployment event to the PR triggering the aforementioned workflow.
In order to make typescript happy, this cypress package is separate from all the Jest dependencies in the monorepo workspaces setup.
You can run the e2e tests locally pointing at your local running version like so:
cd cypress
yarn install
yarn cypress runYou can open up the cypress console by using yarn cypress open.
You can also run towards any Backstage installation by using the Cypress Environment Variable overrides.
CYPRESS_baseUrl="http://demo.backstage.io" yarn cypress run