Cypress is reporting no specs found, but the spec definitely exists

Current behavior

When I run the following command, cypress states the spec can’t be found.

npx cypress run -C ../sc-automation/config/cypress.uat.json --spec "../sc-automation/cypress/integration/apis/partner-leads/external-single-partner-lead.spec.ts"

Cypress eventually shows the following

Can't run because no spec files were found.

We searched for specs matching this glob pattern:

  > /Users/<user>/Documents/clients/abc.com/sc-automation/cypress/integration/apis/partner-leads/external-single-partner-lead.spec.ts

Desired behavior

I would expect cypress to run the defined spec as it surely exists

~/Documents/clients/abc.com/sc-automation/cypress/integration/tickets master*
❯ pwd
/Users/<user>/Documents/clients/abc.com/sc-automation/cypress/integration/tickets

See here, I am in the directory, and listing files show the spec in question

~/Documents/clients/abc.com/sc-automation/cypress/integration/apis/partner-leads master*
❯ ls -la          
total 40
drwxr-xr-x  4 user  staff    128 Mar 20 12:56 .
drwxr-xr-x  6 user  staff    192 Dec 20 17:14 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 user  staff  15476 Mar 20 12:56 external-single-partner-lead.spec.ts

Test code to reproduce

n/a

Cypress Version

9.5

Other

No response

[hamzafarooq333]

If you want to run a specific folder under the integration folder, we need to change the default behavior of cypress in the cypres.config.json file.

By default the cypress does support the execution of the test if the project structure is be like:

• cypress/integration/examples/abc.js

now if we want to run the newly created folder under the integration folder then alter the property into the cypres.config.json file.

• specPattern: ‘cypress/integration/**/*.js’

Now cypress will accept all newly created folders under which there will be different specs files.

To run the whole new folder from terminal give command:

node_modules/.bin/cypress run --spec cypress/integration/newFolder/* --headed

[jquintozamora]

I managed to resolve this issue by specifying both: specPattern + spec. Being specPattern more general and spec more specific.

cypress run --e2e --config baseUrl='http://localhost:3000',specPattern='cypress/integration/**/**.cy.ts' --browser electron --headless --spec=cypress/integration/group1/**.cy.ts

Hope it helps others.