# BDD with Cypress

Source: https://www.applification.net/writing/bdd-with-cypress
Markdown: https://www.applification.net/markdown/writing/bdd-with-cypress

Published: 2019-06-04

Updated: 2022-02-13

I like to keep my end-to-end tests separate from my codebase, and for this example we’ll need something to test. So…. Codesandbox?

```
mkdir Cypress

npm init -y

npm install cypress — save-dev

npm install — save-dev cypress-cucumber-preprocessor

npm install — save-dev @testing-library/cypress

“cypress”: “cypress open”

“npm run cypress”
```

![Cypress welcome dialog listing the example folders and test files it has added to the project](/images/writing/bdd-with-cypress-01-38734d0ad4.png)

```
cypress/plugins/index.js
```

Cypress Config setup:

**[TheBrainFamily/cypress-cucumber-preprocessor](https://github.com/TheBrainFamily/cypress-cucumber-preprocessor#cypress-configuration)**  
*[Run cucumber/gherkin-syntaxed specs with ](https://github.com/TheBrainFamily/cypress-cucumber-preprocessor#cypress-configuration)**[cypress.io](http://cypress.io)**[ - TheBrainFamily/cypress-cucumber-preprocessor](https://github.com/TheBrainFamily/cypress-cucumber-preprocessor#cypress-configuration)*[github.com](https://github.com/TheBrainFamily/cypress-cucumber-preprocessor#cypress-configuration)

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`cypress/integration/`put your BDD file

I want to open a social network page

@focus

Scenario: Opening a social network page

Given I open Google page

Then I see “google” in the title

---

“cypress-cucumber-preprocessor”: {

“nonGlobalStepDefinitions”: true

}

```
npm i -s cosmiconfig
```

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Cypress-Testing-Library

in `cypress/support/index.js`

`import 'cypress-testing-library/add-commands`

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Polyfill your fetch Requests to log XHR

```
let polyfill
```

```
before(() => {
  const pollyfillUrl = 'https://unpkg.com/unfetch/dist/unfetch.umd.js'
  cy.request(pollyfillUrl).then(response => {
    pollyfill = response.body
  })
})
```

```
Cypress.on('window:before:load', win => {
  delete win.fetch
  win.eval(pollyfill)
  win.fetch = win.unfetch
})
```

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