After Spec API

The after:spec event fires after a spec file is run. When running cypress via cypress open, the event will fire when the browser closes.

Syntax

const { defineConfig } = require('cypress')

module.exports = defineConfig({
  // setupNodeEvents can be defined in either
  // the e2e or component configuration
  e2e: {
    setupNodeEvents(on, config) {
      on('after:spec', (spec, results) => {
        /* ... */
      })
    }
  }
})
import { defineConfig } from 'cypress'

export default defineConfig({
  // setupNodeEvents can be defined in either
  // the e2e or component configuration
  e2e: {
    setupNodeEvents(on, config) {
      on('after:spec', (spec, results) => {
        /* ... */
      })
    }
  }
})
// cypress/plugins/index.js

module.exports = (on, config) => {
  on('after:spec', (spec, results) => {
    /* ... */
  })
}

spec (Object)

Details of the spec file, including the following properties:

PropertyDescription
nameThe base name of the spec file (e.g. login.cy.js)
relativeThe path to the spec file, relative to the project root (e.g. cypress/e2e/login.cy.js)
absoluteThe absolute path to the spec file (e.g. /Users/janelane/my-app/cypress/e2e/login.cy.js)

results (Object)

Details of the spec file's results, including numbers of passes/failures/etc and details on the tests themselves.

Results are only provided when running via cypress run. When running via cypress open, the results will be undefined.

Usage

You can return a promise from the after:spec event handler and it will be awaited before Cypress proceeds with processing the spec's video or moving on to further specs if there are any.

Log the relative spec path to stdout after the spec is run

module.exports = (on, config) => {
  on('after:spec', (spec, results) => {
    // spec will look something like this:
    // {
    //   name: 'login.cy.js',
    //   relative: 'cypress/e2e/login.cy.js',
    //   absolute: '/Users/janelane/my-app/cypress/e2e/login.cy.js',
    // }

    // results will look something like this:
    // {
    //   stats: {
    //     suites: 0,
    //     tests: 1,
    //     passes: 1,
    //     pending: 0,
    //     skipped: 0,
    //     failures: 0,
    //     // ...more properties
    //   }
    //   reporter: 'spec',
    //   tests: [
    //     {
    //       title: ['login', 'logs user in'],
    //       state: 'passed',
    //       body: 'function () {}',
    //       // ...more properties...
    //     }
    //   ],
    //   error: null,
    //   video: '/Users/janelane/my-app/cypress/videos/login.cy.js.mp4',
    //   screenshots: [],
    //   // ...more properties...
    // }
    console.log('Finished running', spec.relative)
  })
}

Examples

Delete the recorded video if the spec passed

You can delete the recorded video for a spec when certain conditions are met. This will skip the compression and uploading of the video when recording to Cypress Cloud.

The example below shows how to delete the recorded video for specs with no failing tests.

const { defineConfig } = require('cypress')

// need to install the "del" module as a dependency
// npm i del --save-dev
const del = require('del')

module.exports = defineConfig({
  // setupNodeEvents can be defined in either
  // the e2e or component configuration
  e2e: {
    setupNodeEvents(on, config) {
      on('after:spec', (spec, results) => {
        if (results && results.stats.failures === 0 && results.video) {
          // `del()` returns a promise, so it's important to return it to ensure
          // deleting the video is finished before moving on
          return del(results.video)
        }
      })
    }
  }
})
import { defineConfig } from 'cypress'

// need to install the "del" module as a dependency
// npm i del --save-dev
const del = require('del')

export default defineConfig({
  // setupNodeEvents can be defined in either
  // the e2e or component configuration
  e2e: {
    setupNodeEvents(on, config) {
      on('after:spec', (spec, results) => {
        if (results && results.stats.failures === 0 && results.video) {
          // `del()` returns a promise, so it's important to return it to ensure
          // deleting the video is finished before moving on
          return del(results.video)
        }
      })
    }
  }
})
// cypress/plugins/index.js

// need to install the "del" module as a dependency
// npm i del --save-dev
const del = require('del')

module.exports = (on, config) => {
  on('after:spec', (spec, results) => {
    if (results && results.stats.failures === 0 && results.video) {
      // `del()` returns a promise, so it's important to return it to ensure
      // deleting the video is finished before moving on
      return del(results.video)
    }
  })
}

Delete the recorded video if no tests retried

You can delete the recorded video for a spec when certain conditions are met. This will skip the compression and uploading of the video when recording to Cypress Cloud.

The example below shows how to delete the recorded video for specs that had no retry attempts when using Cypress test retries.

const { defineConfig } = require('cypress')

// need to install these dependencies
// npm i lodash del --save-dev
const _ = require('lodash')
const del = require('del')

module.exports = defineConfig({
  // setupNodeEvents can be defined in either
  // the e2e or component configuration
  e2e: {
    setupNodeEvents(on, config) {
      on('after:spec', (spec, results) => {
        if (results && results.video) {
          // Do we have failures for any retry attempts?
          const failures = _.some(results.tests, (test) => {
            return _.some(test.attempts, { state: 'failed' })
          })
          if (!failures) {
            // delete the video if the spec passed and no tests retried
            return del(results.video)
          }
        }
      })
    }
  }
})
import { defineConfig } from 'cypress'

// need to install these dependencies
// npm i lodash del --save-dev
const _ = require('lodash')
const del = require('del')

export default defineConfig({
  // setupNodeEvents can be defined in either
  // the e2e or component configuration
  e2e: {
    setupNodeEvents(on, config) {
      on('after:spec', (spec, results) => {
        if (results && results.video) {
          // Do we have failures for any retry attempts?
          const failures = _.some(results.tests, (test) => {
            return _.some(test.attempts, { state: 'failed' })
          })
          if (!failures) {
            // delete the video if the spec passed and no tests retried
            return del(results.video)
          }
        }
      })
    }
  }
})
// cypress/plugins/index.js

// need to install these dependencies
// npm i lodash del --save-dev
const _ = require('lodash')
const del = require('del')

module.exports = (on, config) => {
  on('after:spec', (spec, results) => {
    if (results && results.video) {
      // Do we have failures for any retry attempts?
      const failures = _.some(results.tests, (test) => {
        return _.some(test.attempts, { state: 'failed' })
      })
      if (!failures) {
        // delete the video if the spec passed and no tests retried
        return del(results.video)
      }
    }
  })
}

See also