Cypress docker gitlab example failing in test stage

Current behavior:

I’m trying to add Cypress to the pipeline on Gitlab using this example cypress-example-docker-gitlab. When it goes to the cypress-e2e or cypress-e2e-chrome job it fails.

The error message says: ERROR: No files to upload

Desired behavior:

It should run the job correctly.

Steps to reproduce: (app code and test code)

# .gitlab-ci.yml
# I'm using yarn

stages:
  - build
  - test

variables:
  npm_config_cache: /builds/vctormb/testing-cypress/.npm
  CYPRESS_CACHE_FOLDER: /builds/vctormb/testing-cypress/cache/Cypress

cache:
  key: ${CI_COMMIT_REF_SLUG}
  paths:
    - ~/.cache

install:
  image: cypress/base:10
  stage: build

  script:
    - yarn install --frozen-lockfile
    - $(yarn bin)/cypress verify

cypress-e2e:
  image: cypress/base:10
  stage: test
  script:
    - $(yarn bin)/cypress run
  artifacts:
    expire_in: 1 week
    when: always
    paths:
      - cypress/screenshots
      - cypress/videos

cypress-e2e-chrome:
  image: cypress/browsers:chrome67
  stage: test
  script:
    - $(yarn bin)/cypress run --browser chrome
  artifacts:
    expire_in: 1 week
    when: always
    paths:
      - cypress/screenshots
      - cypress/videos

Versions

“cypress”: “3.2.0”

[bahmutov]

@vctormb yes, we are using --record to send test results to our dashboard, if you are not a subscriber, just use cypress run (and run a single job)

[ryan-snyder]

We used to have this issue as well. The problem is getting the cypress binary to cache correctly with yarn since yarn doesn’t actually install the cypress binary. Our pipeline which works looks like so

  variables:
    CYPRESS_CACHE_FOLDER: /builds/project/repo/cache/Cypress
  cache:
    key: ${CI_COMMIT_REF_SLUG}
    paths:
      - .npm
      - cache/Cypress
      - node_modules
  before_script:
    - npm install && npm ci
    - $(npm bin)/cypress verify

I would recommend trying npm instead of yarn for any cypress stuff just because it typically works better. .Currently we just have a docker image with the cypress binary pre-installed which allows your pipelines to run much quicker. That’s a possible work around if the above doesn’t work