Timing of test using dayjs/moment

[geekiam23]

Refers to running in the CI/CD

In our test suite, we have tests that start a service at a certain time with moment/dayjs. Running into a problem with the timing and looking to make it more reliable. If a test fails or if the computer does not perform correctly, it causes the test to fail. One problem that I notice is that moment/dayjs sets the time when you give the command instead of when it gets to each file (I know that's how JS functions).

Ex: Test 1 has a time of 2 mins from current time. Test 6 has a time of 7 mins from current time.

Let me know if this make sense or not. Would love to give more details.

I have one idea but do not know if it is best practice:
Instead of running the entire test suite, I can stagger the timing on each test file and only have to worry about the timing conflict of each file instead of the entire suite.

[jennifer-shehane]

Have you looked into using cy.clock() to mock the Dates? https://on.cypress.io/clock

[geekiam23]

I checked it out but would love to know more about your thoughts. Do you have any examples that you an share with me?