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Discover how to effectively manage selectors in `Cypress` tests across mobile and desktop viewports for optimized automation.
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Mastering Cypress Viewports: Efficiently Handling Different Selectors for Mobile and Desktop

As web development evolves, ensuring that your automation tests are robust enough to handle different viewports is crucial. When working with automation frameworks like Cypress, managing selectors that vary between mobile and desktop versions of your website can be a challenge. This guide will guide you through an effective strategy to handle this situation, minimizing repetitive code while maintaining test reliability.

Understanding the Problem

You may find yourself in a situation where various elements in your application use different CSS selectors based on the viewport—mobile versus desktop. For instance, during a product search, the selectors for mobile might differ from those used on a larger screen, leading to the inherent complexity of managing multiple conditions in your tests. Here's an overview of the issue:

Different Selectors: The same features can have different selectors depending on the device.

Repetitive Code: Writing separate logic for different viewports can cause unnecessary repetition in your tests.

Solution Overview

To address the challenges posed by these differing selectors across viewports, we can streamline our code by incorporating metadata into our viewport settings. This approach allows us to toggle functionality with minimal redundancy. We’ll break down this solution into manageable sections.

Step 1: Define Viewport Metadata

First, modify your viewport setup to include additional metadata. Here's a modified example from your BasePage class:

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Repeat this pattern for other views, ensuring each viewport contains relevant information about whether it is mobile or not.

Step 2: Use the Metadata in Your Tests

Now that we have our metadata in place, let's revise the test structure to utilize this information. Below is how to implement it within your tests:

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Step 3: Handling Custom Viewports

If you create a customized viewport size that is categorized as mobile, ensure to represent that in your sizes array:

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Step 4: Finalize Your Logic

Finally, refine your test logic to accommodate edge cases for your viewport entries, particularly for your device handling logic.

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Conclusion

By introducing metadata into your viewport settings and utilizing that data effectively in your tests, you can significantly enhance the maintainability of your automation scripts in Cypress. This approach not only reduces repetition but also makes your code easier to read and manage.

With the right strategies in place, you can ensure your tests run smoothly across devices, providing reliable outcomes regardless of viewport size.

Feel free to adapt the provided snippets and approaches to fit the unique needs of your project. Happy testing!