How to test two systems with different base URLs in a single test suite?

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I'm working on a project that has multiple systems. (ex: admin portal, client portal, etc.) and there are different environments in each system (ex: dev env, QA env, etc.) There is a separate QA repository for e2e testing and I need to test different systems with different URLs in a single test suite.

This question Cypress baseUrl configuation suggests a method of using multiple params in cypress.json to represent the different systems URLs and to use a Cypress.config() to refer to the correct URL. However, that method does not make use of the baseURL property of Cypress.

Is there any in-built capability in Cypress to support the testing of multiple systems in a single test suite? (for example, switch the baseURL from within test code or something of that sort)

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I guess you want to use Cypress.config('baseUrl', <value>) to set the baseUrl in a beforeEach().

You will need to choose how to indicate the system you are testing, perhaps different scripts to start with an environment variable

cypress open --env system=admin,environ=qa

then in the test

const baseUrls = {
  'admin-qa': 'http:/example.com'
  ...
}

beforeEach(()=> {
  const baseUrl = baseUrls[`${Cypress.env('system')-${Cypress.env('qa')}`];
  Cypress.config(baseUrl)
})

I need to test different systems with different URLs in a single test suite

This suggests you want to run the test against all urls in the one run.

If so you can iterate an array of urls

const urls = [
  'http://admin-dev.com', 
  'http://admin-qa.com',
  'http://client-dev.com', 
  'http://client-qa.com'
]

urls.forEach(url => {

  describe(`Testing ${url}`, () => {

    before(() => Cypress.config('baseUrl', url))

    it('tests that thing', ...

If any tests are specific to one environment, i.e must always have client-dev configuration, you can apply the baseUrl at test level

it('tests the other thing', { baseUrl: 'http://client-dev.com' }, () => {
  ...
})
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