How To Mock App When Testing With Cypress

[jhoy1020]

Hi all,

I am working on an app and we want to have some E2E testing. When a user navigates to the app, they are immediately required to sign in. I am using the AuthenticatedTemplate to control what is visible and not visible. Anyone have any suggestion how to mock this out to test? Is there away to force msal to a mock authenticated state?

Thanks in advance for any advice!

[derisen]

@jhoy1020 have a look at the testing sample and the documentation on this.

[jhoy1020]

Hi @derisen, I appreciate the response. I am looking at the example and I see this line.

const [username, password] = getCredentials(); // Implement an API to get your credentials

Do you have to get real credentials? Can you use mock info here?

[derisen]

@jhoy1020 ah yes that's right, you'll need to use a real user/account here, as your e2e tests will have to navigate through AAD, which can't be mocked.

[jhoy1020]

Thanks for the response. Is there away to use a certificate identity instead of username and password? I have a client id, tenant id, and cert name.

[derisen]

@jhoy1020 You can use certificates in ROPC flow and MSAL Node supports it, but username & password are still needed : )