Cypress-and-BDD-setup-from-scratch.md

This document provides step to setup Cypress and BDD in any new project

1. Initialize Cypress:

1. npm install --save-dev cypress
2. run command ./node_modules/.bin/cypress open and choose the type od testing you want to perform
   1. This will initialize the folder structure and sample tests

2. BDD setup for cypress:

1. npm install --save-dev cypress-cucumber-preprocessor 
3. Add below command to cypress.config.js
   1. const cucumber = require('cypress-cucumber-preprocessor').default
   2. module.exports = (on, config) => {
    on('file:preprocessor', cucumber())
    }
4. Add below command to cypress.config.js
   1. "testFiles": "**/*.{feature,features}",
        "ignoreTestFiles": "*.js"
5. Add below code to package.json
   1.  "cypress-cucumber-preprocessor": {
        "nonGlobalStepDefinitions": false,
        "step_definitions": "cypress/integration/featureFiles/stepdefinition/",
        "commonPath": "cypress/integration/featureFiles/stepdefinition/common/",
        "cucumberJson": {
            "generate": true,
            "outputFolder": "./cypress/results/cucumber-json",
            "filePrefix": "",
            "fileSuffix": ".cucumber"
            }
6. Reference link : https://www.npmjs.com/package/cypress-cucumber-preprocessor

3. Configure Cucumber html reporting:

1. npm install --save-dev cucumber-html-reporter
2. Add a index.js file
3. Run command 
   1. node index.js
4. Reference link : https://www.npmjs.com/package/cucumber-html-reporter

4. Steps to configure Hiptest/Cucumber studio

1. install ruby 2.6.6-1(X64) from https://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/
2. install dependency(MSYs2), if not installed during RUBY installation, run below command:
   1. ridk install
3. install nokogiri
   1. gem install nokogiri
4. install hiptest-publisher
   1. gem install hiptest-publisher
5. Add hiptest-publisher.conf file