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As a Meshery UI Contributor, what would you like to see in regards to cypress and end-to-end testing? (What has been your biggest pain points to pick this up?)
Lee
April 26, 2022, 10:54pm
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I would like to understand how UI contributors might be able to locally invoke these tests.
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Just for the record (and visibility across the #community ), a proposal for a new blog has sparked out of a question posted on slack - âHow do I start off with cypress testing?â :
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Contributors and community members are encouraged to post on https://layer5.io/b⊠log. A new blog post fitting the following description is requested to be written by a community member:
**Desired Title:** Contributing to Meshery with End-to-End Automation Testing using Cypress
**Topic:** cypress, test automation, meshery
**Core points to convey in the post:**
Reference: https://layer5io.slack.com/archives/C011VPREG2Z/p1651162390443769?thread_ts=1651113754.202709&cid=C011VPREG2Z
_Great question (âHow to start of with cypress testing in Meshery?â), in the future I highly suggest to skim at existing questions in [Layer5 Discuss community](https://discuss.layer5.io/) forum and posting the question if it hasnât been made yet (No post there yet for this specific one) but answering your question you can (ordering is based on effort and need of cross collaboration, but you can mix and match freely):_
_Leeâs favorite (mine as well) âbe a userâ: become a whiny regular (Meshery UI) or power user (Meshery CLI) as technically possible to you, we welcome all levels of expertise. Installing, using and gaining familiarity with Meshery and its features is of great use and on the way weâd be delighted if you can raise any questions and suggestions you get (Have you installed Meshery? If not, try out the [Quick Start Guide](https://docs.meshery.io/installation/quick-start) which would get you with a local User-Packaged version of Meshery up and running, What about Mesheryâs features like Service Mesh Lifecycle, Application, Pattern, Configuration and/or Performance Management? If not familiar, you may look into articles/guides from this list: [Architecture Adapters Concept](https://docs.meshery.io/concepts/architecture/adapters), [Meshery Functionality](https://docs.meshery.io/functionality), [Using Multiple Adapters Guide](https://docs.meshery.io/guides/multiple-adapters). Finally, for Managing and using service meshes through Meshery try out some of the [Operation Guides](https://docs.meshery.io/guides) and/or [Meshery CLI Guides](https://docs.meshery.io/guides/mesheryctl))
Refer to our existing blog on âFunctional Testing with Cypress in Meshery UIâ: https://layer5.io/blog/meshery/functional-testing-with-cypress-in-meshery-ui
Look into [meshery/meshery repo issues with âcypressâ tag](https://github.com/meshery/meshery/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Acypress) (just added this new tag) and jump into the discussion of existing issues, help split issues from umbrella/epic issues and looking into closed issuesâ merged PRâs is also a good way of getting familiar of how this kind of contributions are made.
Look into [meshery/meshery repoâs /ui/cypress folder](https://github.com/meshery/meshery/tree/master/ui/cypress) and see how existing tests are implemented.
Reach out in the [#cypress-testing](https://layer5io.slack.com/archives/C02Q44SSCH4) to request for guidance on meshery, cypress and github workflow specifics as you bump into roadblocks._
_Granted that this is a bit of a stretch of what a new contributor would do but I highly suggest to you and anyone really interested to be one of our alpha/beta users of content for some WIP changes for both [âContributing to Meshery UIâ](https://github.com/MarioArriaga92/meshery/blob/docs/marioarriaga92/5211-contribute-e2e-tests-cypress/docs/pages/project/contributing/contributing-ui.md) and soon-to-be new [âContributing to Meshery Cypress Testsâ](https://github.com/MarioArriaga92/meshery/blob/docs/marioarriaga92/5211-contribute-e2e-tests-cypress/docs/pages/project/contributing/contributing-cypress.md). (These are in [my fork](https://github.com/MarioArriaga92/meshery) only, for now)_
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Lee
April 28, 2022, 7:46pm
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Itâd be good to bubble up a few of the npm commands that invoke Cypress tests into the top-level Makefile; e.g. make ui-test.
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Not much #community interaction but still want to share that PR for contributing to Mesheryâs End-to-End Testing using Cypress is about to be merged:
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