As a QA, who deals with data (read large amounts of data) every single day, we get the data in excel or CSV files. In order for Cypress to read and consume the raw CSV file, we need a csv parser.
This article talks about the csv parser that can be used within Cypress to read the CSV data file.
Step 1 – Install ‘neat-csv’ package
npm install neat-csv@5.2.0
Once installed, make sure your package.json has “neat-csv” added as your dependencies
Step 2- Have the CSV data file in fixtures folder
Let’s say, you have leads information to be read in the data file (leads.csv)
Upload your data file in csv format under fixtures folder
Step 3 – In your testing file (eg: test.cy.js), you need to define a variable to capture the leads data, once it is parsed
Let data;
Step 4 – Now, you are ready to read the leads file using cy.fixture command and then call neatCSV to parse the leads csv file. Once parsed, capture the response and pass it to data variable
Code would be as below:
cy.fixture(leads.csv)
.then(neatCSV)
.then(response => data=response;)
