aaditya23-testing-google-pay | Stripe Developers | Page 1

surreal oracle Apr 5, 2022, 1:38 PM

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Hi 👋 I'm not familiar with Cypress, is that a browser-driving test framework like Selenium?

obsidian bone Apr 5, 2022, 2:09 PM

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Yeah

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So basically it spins up a fresh chromium browser and runs all the tests on it.

surreal oracle Apr 5, 2022, 2:24 PM

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Gotcha, and if you hit your site normally, does Google Pay render as expected?

obsidian bone Apr 5, 2022, 2:32 PM

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it works fine when im running normally

surreal oracle Apr 5, 2022, 2:35 PM

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I'm not certain, but my suspicion is that Cypress is starting an incognito session, to avoid cookie/session conflicts, which block chromium from accessing your saved payment methods which blocks Google Pay from displaying.

obsidian bone Apr 5, 2022, 2:49 PM

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Yeah. it does something like that. https://docs.cypress.io/guides/guides/launching-browsers#Cypress-Profile

Cypress Documentation

Launching Browsers | Cypress Documentation

When you run tests in Cypress, we launch a browser for you. This enables us to: Create a clean, pristine testing environment. Access the privileged

surreal oracle Apr 5, 2022, 2:59 PM

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Yeah, that's going to make things tricky. If that profile is persistent then you might be able to save a card to it. If not you'll either need to find a way to allow Cypress to access your saved cards, or, as you mentioned initially, mock the payment request so you can provide a fabricated response.

obsidian bone Apr 5, 2022, 3:18 PM

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Okay. So ill figure out how to mock the payment request API then .
What API call can i look for in the Network tab ?

surreal oracle Apr 5, 2022, 3:24 PM

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This guide seems to a good job walking through that, specifically for Cypress
https://simonsmith.io/mocking-stripe-js-methods-with-cypress#real-world-example-mocking-the-stripepaymentrequest-api

Mocking Stripe.js methods with Cypress

In this post we will be looking at how to create mock functions for any of the
methods returned by Stripe.js within a Cypress test and also…

obsidian bone Apr 5, 2022, 3:37 PM

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I did go through this. I'll it out and see.
Thanks

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