sync skip; aborting execution error thrown when this.skip() inside function

[przemek-rzedkowski]

Current behavior

Scenarios skipped with use of "@Focus" annotation generates a bug as seen on screenshot:

Focused scenario(s) run(s) correctly. It happened shortly after upgrading cypress to v.6.4.0 (I was using 6.3.0 before). Also I am using cypress-cucumber-preprocessor v.4.0.0. Problem disappears while running tests without annotation.
It's my first bug here so if you need any additional info please let me know, I will gladly provide :)

Desired behavior

It should simply run focused scenario(s) and skip the rest of them without failing .

Versions

Cypress v.6.4.0
cypress-cucumber-preprocessor v.4.0.0

[dthisner]

I have the same issue, example project can be located here that reproduces the issue: https://github.com/dthisner/cypressIssue
Issue logged at the cucumber-preprocess repo: badeball/cypress-cucumber-preprocessor#503

[jennifer-shehane]

As mentioned previously in the cucumber project, this can be reproduced solely in Cypress using the following code:

it("should work", function () {
  cy.then(() => this.skip()); // throws "sync skip; aborting execution"
});

This is sync skip; aborting execution error is being thrown from Mocha here: https://mochajs.org/api/runnable.js.html

/**
 * Halt and mark as pending.
 *
 * @memberof Mocha.Runnable
 * @public
 */
Runnable.prototype.skip = function() {
  this.pending = true;
  throw new Pending('sync skip; aborting execution');
};

I guess we're not handling this correctly in this case. This seems to have always errored in this case.

[vishnuprabhu-95]

I am facing same issue!

[bennymeade]

Same issue for me, to avoid this issue I had to roll back to:
"cypress": "^6.3.0",
"cypress-cucumber-preprocessor": "^4.0.0",

[damsorian]

Same issue for me, to avoid this issue I had to roll back to:
"cypress": "^6.3.0",

The problem seems to be in the 6.4.0 version, the 6.3.0. works as expected

[przemek-rzedkowski]

problem seems to be solved in v. 6.5.0

[narayananpalani]

Used 6.5.0 this morning and I got the same error when running tags in my repo.

[ataul821]

I see the same issue in 6.5.0 as well.

[IIsijola]

I am having the same issue with version 7.0.1

[martinsik]

Same thing in 7.2.0 :(.

[canansaricelik]

same issue on 7.4.0

[neilmatillano]

I also get it in latest 7.5.0 version

[sKavanaghV]

I also get it in latest 7.5.0 version

This error will trigger Cypress to take screenshots and for the skip'd test. In the Cucumber scenario where many tests can be skipped based upon the specified tags, the number of screenshots could be significant; increasing test execution time and generating unnecessary screenshots.

[bahmutov]

Try using this plugin https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress-grep - I think it would make more sense to grep by title or tag rather than skip tests once the test has started.

[guthizon]

I'm same error yet! Do you some news?

[Ex4l]

Same here with "cypress": "^7.7.0" and "cypress-cucumber-preprocessor": "^4.1.3"

I don't even have any tags in my feature file.

It's the same in Windows or in WSL.

Ok for anyone wondering why it's not working with cypress-cucumber-preprocessor, if you have tags in your cypress open command you must use them.

I had not @ignore and @focus tags and thought I could omit the tags on my feature files. No, you can't. So either you get rid of them when launching tests by Cypress open doing cypress open --env TAGS='' --browser chrome, either you add @focus tag on each test to be able to launch it manually.

[stevenlafl]

I'm not sure what's going on here, but I want to have multiple features and target a tag to run, like you're supposed to be able to do. Unfortunately, the second a file doesn't have the tag I specify, it stops ALL execution including any subsequent files that DO have the tag in them. This breaks my use-case and the intent of this feature.

EDIT: So it has to do with headed mode with "--no-exit" enabled. With "cypress run," each spec (feature) runs in isolation (separate browser instance) so with the first test not exiting, we never get to the other files.

[todd-m-kemp]

Though it doesn't seem like a big deal on its own, this error is appearing as one of the top Most Common Errors for my organization in the Cypress Dashboard which isn't particularly helpful because it is not actionable on our end.

[araujosnathan]

I was having this problem with Cypress 8.6.0, i did a downgrade to v8.3.1 and it worked. All version above of 8.3.1 to latest, the problem for me is happening.

[sweeyeancheong]

Using Cypress 8.7.0 and cypress-cucumber-preprocessor 4.3.0.
Solved the error as I missed out '@' on the values entered for TAGS field in my environment json file.

[cypress-bot]

The code for this is done in cypress-io/cypress#19279, but has yet to be released.
We'll update this issue and reference the changelog when it's released.

[cypress-bot]

The code for this is done in cypress-io/cypress#19331, but has yet to be released.
We'll update this issue and reference the changelog when it's released.

[cypress-bot]

Released in 9.2.0.

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