Different path in case of 'cypress run' and 'cypress open' test execution

[viktorgogulenko]

Hi, I've tried to use this great plugin, but we've found that path is different for saving files in case of "cypress open..." and "cypress run...". I've seen that seems this is a Cypress bug (issue), but is it possible somehow to save snapshots without all extra prefixes to one folder for example? Thanks in advance!

[FRSgit]

Hello @viktorgogulenko,

Can you please provide a reproduction repo where this happens? (or at least configuration that you're using?)

I'm asking about that, because the directory structure seems to be off (the cp-visual-refression-diff_snapshots directory should be cleaned up after plugins' work and screenshots should be moved to a different path).

[viktorgogulenko]

What is happening from your side if you are executing the same test using Cypress GUI ("../node_modules/.bin/cypress open") and "cypress run" ("../node_modules/.bin/cypress run --spec=integration/snapshotTesting/snapshotTest.spec.js --browser=chrome")? Because for me it easily could be reproduced - plugin saves screenshots in two different folders :( I've set env to:
pluginVisualRegressionImagesDir: 'screenshots/tests/'

[FRSgit]

If I run the example test suite locally I get images stored:

• from E2E tests images are stored within example/cypress/e2e/__image_snapshots_local__,
• from component-testing images are stored within example/cypress/component/__image_snapshots_local__.

Can you reproduce the same behaviour for the example project or do you get something different?

[viktorgogulenko]

Thanks @FRSgit for really quick response. After few more tries I realised that was looking into the wrong place and seems plugin works as expected.

[FRSgit]

Good to hear that @viktorgogulenko, thanks for the update!

Though I am a bit worried that you were able to even see the __cp-visual-refression-diff_snapshots__ directory on your hard drive (it should've been removed after plugin finished it work. Would you have any details on how to reproduce this behavior?

[FRSgit]

Closing this one as stale - but I believe we've answered the main question. Thanks for raising this discussion topic!