Creating Database Fixtures
Explore creating database fixtures to enhance your end-to-end tests in Next.js using Cypress. Understand how to insert and reset data before tests, ensuring test reliability by managing database state. Learn to write assertions based on dynamic data states to verify UI behavior accurately.
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Let’s make our home page tests more interesting by using database fixtures.
End-to-end test examples with database fixtures
When testing our applications, we cannot only rely on the user interface to make certain test scenarios possible. Often, we have to use fixtures to insert certain data into the database before we run our tests. When doing this, it is important to reset our database in between the tests before running each test. That way, we don’t accidentally have any leftover data in the database from previous tests that might interfere with our results.
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