login configuration

[ways2learning]

Hi @amirrustam @kevinold @davidkpiano, I am not from a programming background and trying to understand the UI tests code of this application. But, one thing where I have been stuck up and trying to figure out was the configuration of the test for ‘cy.login(user.username)’ command. I have gone through the entire application code but, unable to understand how does the find command is always picking up the first user as ‘Katharina_Bernier’ from the seeded database and where it has been configured in such a way and how can we change it if we need to log in for any other user? I request you to please help me in understanding this. Your answering on this would help me a lot and be appreciated. Thank you.

[kevinold]

@ways2learning

This test is an example of what you describe in where we use the cy.database command with find and it will get the first user in our database.

The find is implemented inside of this Cypress task, find:database, using lodash's find method to take the first element from the array returned from list of users returned from the api request

how can we change it if we need to log in for any other user?

To login as another user, pass filter to cy.database, as demonstrated in this beforeEach where you can select any set of users from the array returned.

[ways2learning]

Glad to see your quick reply on this Kevin.
It is working and I am able to login as another user after passing 'filter' method to cy.database().

Thanks a lot once again.