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This AWS CodeBuild configuration is placed within `buildspec.yml`." } ] }, { "type": "paragraph", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "Detailed documentation is available in the " }, { "type": "link", "title": null, "url": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codebuild/", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "AWS CodeBuild Documentation" } ] }, { "type": "text", "value": "." } ] }, { "type": "paragraph", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "buildspec.yml" } ] }, { "type": "code", "lang": null, "meta": null, "value": "version: 0.2phases: install: runtime-versions: nodejs: latest commands: # Set COMMIT_INFO variables to send Git specifics to Cypress Cloud when recording # https://docs.cypress.io/app/continuous-integration/overview#Git-information - export COMMIT_INFO_BRANCH=\"$(git rev-parse HEAD | xargs git name-rev | cut -d' ' -f2 | sed 's/remotes\\/origin\\///g')\" - export COMMIT_INFO_MESSAGE=\"$(git log -1 --pretty=%B)\" - export COMMIT_INFO_EMAIL=\"$(git log -1 --pretty=%ae)\" - export COMMIT_INFO_AUTHOR=\"$(git log -1 --pretty=%an)\" - export COMMIT_INFO_SHA=\"$(git log -1 --pretty=%H)\" - export COMMIT_INFO_REMOTE=\"$(git config --get remote.origin.url)\" - npm ci pre_build: commands: - npm run cy:verify - npm run cy:info build: commands: - npm run start:ci & - npx cypress run --record" }, { "type": "paragraph", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "How this buildspec works:" } ] }, { "type": "list", "ordered": false, "start": null, "spread": false, "children": [ { "type": "listItem", "spread": false, "checked": null, "children": [ { "type": "paragraph", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "On push to this repository, this job will provision and start AWS-hosted Amazon Linux instance with Node.js for running the outlined `pre_build` and `build` for the declared commands within the `commands` section of the configuration." } ] } ] }, { "type": "listItem", "spread": false, "checked": null, "children": [ { "type": "paragraph", "children": [ { "type": "link", "title": null, "url": "https://aws.amazon.com/codebuild/", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "AWS CodeBuild" } ] }, { "type": "text", "value": " will checkout our code from our GitHub repository." } ] } ] }, { "type": "listItem", "spread": false, "checked": null, "children": [ { "type": "paragraph", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "Finally, our `buildspec.yml` configuration will:" } ] }, { "type": "list", "ordered": false, "start": null, "spread": false, "children": [ { "type": "listItem", "spread": false, "checked": null, "children": [ { "type": "paragraph", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "Install npm dependencies" } ] } ] }, { "type": "listItem", "spread": false, "checked": null, "children": [ { "type": "paragraph", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "Start the project web server (`npm start:ci`)" } ] } ] }, { "type": "listItem", "spread": false, "checked": null, "children": [ { "type": "paragraph", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "Run the Cypress tests within our GitHub repository within Electron." } ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "type": "paragraph", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "Try it out" } ] }, { "type": "paragraph", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "To try out the example above yourself, fork the " }, { "type": "link", "title": null, "url": "https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress-example-kitchensink", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "Cypress Kitchen Sink" } ] }, { "type": "text", "value": " example project and place the above " }, { "type": "link", "title": null, "url": "https://aws.amazon.com/codebuild/", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "AWS CodeBuild" } ] }, { "type": "text", "value": " configuration in `buildspec.yml`." } ] }, { "type": "heading", "depth": 2, "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "Testing with Cypress Docker Images" } ] }, { "type": "paragraph", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "As of version 0.2, CodeBuild does not provide a way to specify a custom image for single build configurations. One way to solve this is using an " }, { "type": "link", "title": null, "url": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codebuild/latest/userguide/batch-build-buildspec.html#build-spec.batch.build-list", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "AWS CodeBuild batch build-list strategy" } ] }, { "type": "text", "value": "." } ] }, { "type": "heading", "depth": 3, "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "Enabling batch builds" } ] }, { "type": "paragraph", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "Per the " }, { "type": "link", "title": null, "url": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codebuild/latest/userguide/batch-build-buildspec.html", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "AWS CodeBuild batch build documentation" } ] }, { "type": "text", "value": ", AWS CodeBuild creates a separate build for each possible configuration combination for a " }, { "type": "link", "title": null, "url": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codebuild/latest/userguide/batch-build-buildspec.html#build-spec.batch.build-list", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "batch build-list strategy" } ] }, { "type": "text", "value": ". Therefore, AWS CodeBuild projects must be created or updated to run batch configuration." } ] }, { "type": "paragraph", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "Follow these steps to enable batch configuration for existing AWS CodeBuild projects:" } ] }, { "type": "list", "ordered": false, "start": null, "spread": false, "children": [ { "type": "listItem", "spread": false, "checked": null, "children": [ { "type": "paragraph", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "Navigate to the AWS CodeBuild Console" } ] } ] }, { "type": "listItem", "spread": false, "checked": null, "children": [ { "type": "paragraph", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "Select the project" } ] } ] }, { "type": "listItem", "spread": false, "checked": null, "children": [ { "type": "paragraph", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "Click \"Edit\" --> \"Batch Configuration\"" } ] } ] }, { "type": "listItem", "spread": false, "checked": null, "children": [ { "type": "paragraph", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "Create \"New service Role\" and enter the name of the role" } ] } ] }, { "type": "listItem", "spread": false, "checked": null, "children": [ { "type": "paragraph", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "Leave all other options as optional" } ] } ] }, { "type": "listItem", "spread": false, "checked": null, "children": [ { "type": "paragraph", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "Click \"Update batch configuration\"" } ] } ] }, { "type": "listItem", "spread": false, "checked": null, "children": [ { "type": "paragraph", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "Start the Build" } ] } ] } ] }, { "type": "heading", "depth": 3, "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "Cypress Amazon Public ECR" } ] }, { "type": "paragraph", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "AWS CodeBuild offers a " }, { "type": "link", "title": null, "url": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codebuild/latest/userguide/batch-build-buildspec.html#build-spec.batch.build-list", "children": [ { 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"https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress-docker-images", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "Docker Images" } ] }, { "type": "text", "value": " for running Cypress locally and in CI are published to the " }, { "type": "link", "title": null, "url": "https://gallery.ecr.aws", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "Amazon ECR Public Gallery" } ] }, { "type": "text", "value": ".:" } ] }, { "type": "list", "ordered": false, "start": null, "spread": false, "children": [ { "type": "listItem", "spread": false, "checked": null, "children": [ { "type": "paragraph", "children": [ { "type": "link", "title": null, "url": "https://gallery.ecr.aws/cypress-io/cypress/base", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "Cypress 'base' Amazon ECR Public Gallery" } ] } ] } ] }, { "type": "listItem", "spread": false, "checked": null, "children": [ { "type": "paragraph", "children": [ { "type": "link", "title": null, "url": "https://gallery.ecr.aws/cypress-io/cypress/browsers", "children": [ { "type": 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https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codebuild/latest/userguide/batch-build-buildspec.html## Define build to run using the## \"cypress/browsers:22.15.0\" image## from the Cypress Amazon ECR Public Gallerybatch: fast-fail: false build-list: - identifier: cypress-e2e-tests env: image: public.ecr.aws/cypress-io/cypress/browsers:22.15.0phases: install: runtime-versions: nodejs: latest commands: # Set COMMIT_INFO variables to send Git specifics to Cypress Cloud when recording # https://docs.cypress.io/app/continuous-integration/overview#Git-information - export COMMIT_INFO_BRANCH=\"$(git rev-parse HEAD | xargs git name-rev | cut -d' ' -f2 | sed 's/remotes\\/origin\\///g')\" - export COMMIT_INFO_MESSAGE=\"$(git log -1 --pretty=%B)\" - export COMMIT_INFO_EMAIL=\"$(git log -1 --pretty=%ae)\" - export COMMIT_INFO_AUTHOR=\"$(git log -1 --pretty=%an)\" - export COMMIT_INFO_SHA=\"$(git log -1 --pretty=%H)\" - export COMMIT_INFO_REMOTE=\"$(git config --get remote.origin.url)\" - npm ci pre_build: commands: - npm run cy:verify - npm run cy:info build: commands: - npm run start:ci & - npx cypress run --record --browser firefox" }, { "type": "heading", "depth": 2, "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "Caching Dependencies and Build Artifacts" } ] }, { "type": "paragraph", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "Caching with " }, { "type": "link", "title": null, "url": "https://aws.amazon.com/codebuild/", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "AWS CodeBuild" } ] }, { "type": "text", "value": " directly can be challenging. The " }, { "type": "link", "title": null, "url": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codebuild/latest/userguide/build-caching.html", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "Build caching in AWS CodeBuild" } ] }, { "type": "text", "value": " document offers details on local or Amazon S3 caching." } ] }, { "type": "paragraph", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "Per the documentation, \"Local caching stores a cache locally on a build host that is available to that build host only\". This will not be useful during parallel test runs." } ] }, { "type": "paragraph", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "The \"Amazon S3 caching stores the cache in an Amazon S3 bucket that is available across multiple build hosts\". While this may sound useful, in practice the upload of cached dependencies can take some time. Furthermore, each worker will attempt to save it's dependency cache to Amazon S3, which increases build time significantly." } ] }, { "type": "paragraph", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "Beyond the scope of this guide, but " }, { "type": "link", "title": null, "url": "https://aws.amazon.com/codepipeline", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "AWS CodePipeline" } ] }, { "type": "text", "value": " may be of use to cache the initial source, dependencies and build output for use in AWS CodeBuild jobs using " }, { "type": "link", "title": null, "url": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codepipeline/latest/userguide/welcome-introducing-artifacts.html", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "AWS CodePipeline Input and Output Artifacts" } ] }, { "type": "text", "value": "." } ] }, { "type": "paragraph", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "Reference the " }, { "type": "link", "title": null, "url": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codebuild/latest/userguide/sample-pipeline-multi-input-output.html", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "AWS CodePipeline integration with CodeBuild and multiple input sources and output artifacts sample" } ] }, { "type": "text", "value": " example for details on how to configure a CodePipeline with an output artifact." } ] }, { "type": "heading", "depth": 2, "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "Parallelization" } ] }, { "type": "paragraph", "children": [ { "type": "link", "title": null, "url": "/llm/markdown/cloud/get-started/introduction.md", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "Cypress Cloud" } ] }, { "type": "text", "value": " offers the ability to " }, { "type": "link", "title": null, "url": "/llm/markdown/cloud/features/smart-orchestration/parallelization.md", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "parallelize and group test runs" } ] }, { "type": "text", "value": " along with additional insights and " }, { "type": "link", "title": null, "url": "/llm/markdown/cloud/features/analytics/overview.md", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "analytics" } ] }, { "type": "text", "value": " for Cypress tests." } ] }, { "type": "paragraph", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "AWS CodeBuild offers a " }, { "type": "link", "title": null, "url": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codebuild/latest/userguide/batch-build-buildspec.html#build-spec.batch.build-matrix", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "batch build-matrix strategy" } ] }, { "type": "text", "value": " for declaring different job configurations for a single job definition. The " }, { "type": "link", "title": null, "url": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codebuild/latest/userguide/batch-build-buildspec.html#build-spec.batch.build-matrix", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "batch build-matrix strategy" } ] }, { "type": "text", "value": " provides an option to specify a container image for the job. Jobs declared within a build-matrix strategy can run in parallel which enables us run multiples instances of Cypress at same time as we will see later in this section." } ] }, { "type": "paragraph", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "See " }, { "type": "link", "title": null, "url": "#Enabling-batch-builds", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "Enabling batch builds" } ] }, { "type": "text", "value": " for instructions on how to enable batch builds." } ] }, { "type": "paragraph", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "The following configuration using the `--parallel` and `--record` flags to " }, { "type": "link", "title": null, "url": "/llm/markdown//app//app/command-line.md#cypress-run", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "cypress run" } ] }, { "type": "text", "value": " requires setting up recording test results to " }, { "type": "link", "title": null, "url": "/llm/markdown/cloud/get-started/introduction.md", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "Cypress Cloud" } ] }, { "type": "text", "value": "." } ] }, { "type": "heading", "depth": 3, "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "Parallelizing the build" } ] }, { "type": "paragraph", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "To setup multiple containers to run in parallel, the `build-matrix` configuration uses a set of variables (`CY_GROUP_SPEC` and `WORKERS`) with a list of items specific to each group for the build." } ] }, { "type": "paragraph", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "The fields are delimited by a pipe (`|`) character as follows:" } ] }, { "type": "code", "lang": null, "meta": null, "value": "## Group Name | Browser | Specs | Cypress Configuration options (optional)'UI-Chrome-Mobile|chrome|cypress/tests/ui/*|viewportWidth=375,viewportHeight=667'" }, { "type": "paragraph", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "The `build-matrix` will run all permutations delimited items." } ] }, { "type": "paragraph", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "buildspec.yml" } ] }, { "type": "code", "lang": null, "meta": null, "value": "batch: fast-fail: false build-matrix: # ... dynamic: env: # ... variables: CY_GROUP_SPEC: - 'UI-Chrome|chrome|cypress/tests/ui/*' - 'UI-Chrome-Mobile|chrome|cypress/tests/ui/*|viewportWidth=375,viewportHeight=667' - 'API|chrome|cypress/tests/api/*' - 'UI-Firefox|firefox|cypress/tests/ui/*' - 'UI-Firefox-Mobile|firefox|cypress/tests/ui/*|viewportWidth=375,viewportHeight=667'" }, { "type": "paragraph", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "During the install phase, we utilize shell scripting with the " }, { "type": "link", "title": null, "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut_(Unix)", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "cut command" } ] }, { "type": "text", "value": " to assign values from the delimited `CY_GROUP_SPEC` passed to the worker into shell variables that will be used in the `build` phase when running `cypress run`." } ] }, { "type": "paragraph", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "buildspec.yml" } ] }, { "type": "code", "lang": null, "meta": null, "value": "batch: # ...phases: install: commands: # Set COMMIT_INFO variables to send Git specifics to Cypress Cloud when recording # https://docs.cypress.io//app/continuous-integration/overview#Git-information - export COMMIT_INFO_BRANCH=\"$(git rev-parse HEAD | xargs git name-rev | cut -d' ' -f2 | sed 's/remotes\\/origin\\///g')\" - export COMMIT_INFO_MESSAGE=\"$(git log -1 --pretty=%B)\" - export COMMIT_INFO_EMAIL=\"$(git log -1 --pretty=%ae)\" - export COMMIT_INFO_AUTHOR=\"$(git log -1 --pretty=%an)\" - export COMMIT_INFO_SHA=\"$(git log -1 --pretty=%H)\" - export COMMIT_INFO_REMOTE=\"$(git config --get remote.origin.url)\" - CY_GROUP=$(echo $CY_GROUP_SPEC | cut -d'|' -f1) - CY_BROWSER=$(echo $CY_GROUP_SPEC | cut -d'|' -f2) - CY_SPEC=$(echo $CY_GROUP_SPEC | cut -d'|' -f3) - CY_CONFIG=$(echo $CY_GROUP_SPEC | cut -d'|' -f4) - npm ci## ..." }, { "type": "paragraph", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "To parallelize the runs, we need to add an additional variable to the " }, { "type": "link", "title": null, "url": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codebuild/latest/userguide/batch-build-buildspec.html#build-spec.batch.build-matrix", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "build-matrix strategy" } ] }, { "type": "text", "value": ", `WORKERS`." } ] }, { "type": "paragraph", "children": [ { "type": "text", "value": "buildspec.yml" } ] }, { "type": "code", "lang": null, "meta": null, "value": "batch: fast-fail: false build-matrix: # ... dynamic: env: # ... variables: CY_GROUP_SPEC: # ... 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