The article outlines the setup process for a Cypress pipeline in a Quality Assurance project, including steps to push updated files to a new branch, enabling Gitlab CI/CD, adding secure variables for credentials, scheduling runs, and creating new pipelines.
Below is the event sequence:
Push the cypress folder and the other updated config files cypress.config.js, package.json and .gitlab-ci.yml into the new Branch created in a git repo
Make sure Gitlab CI/CD pipeline is enabled in your project.
On the top bar, select Menu > Projects and find your project.
On the left sidebar, select Settings > General.
Expand Visibility, project features, permissions.
In the Repository section, turn on or off CI/CD as required.
Add new variables to hold username, password and partition details. As its not secure to store the credentials in the code and connect these variables in gitlab to testUserUtils file
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