Testing

Testing with Cypress

To start testing initialize your local environment

npm run start

Then in a new terminal, you can run the testing scripts below.

Testing scripts and their use:

• cy:open: opens the cypress runner in the browser to target specific tests for debugging

• cy:test: runs all integration tests for the site in the command line

• cy:axe: runs axe accessibility testing

• cy:links: runs test to validate links are working as expected

Automated External Link testing

A GitHub Actions scheduled task has been added in cypress-external-links-cron-workflow.yml to test external links for English and Spanish translation of the site. This is scheduled at Mon and Thurs at 9am. Emails are sent out notifying the team of a failure. Any failured will need to ticketed out and assigned to GSA to determine what action needs to be taken: update the link, add an exclusion to the test or no action.