Cypress is executing twice, making an additional electron execution

[Shashikapiletilevi]

I have the following Workflow,

name: End-to-end tests
on:
  push:

jobs:
  cypress-run:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v3
        with:
          ref: epic/routing-tests

      - name: Cypress run
        uses: cypress-io/github-action@v5
        continue-on-error: true
        with:
          working-directory: shop
          start: npm run cypress:run
#          record: false
          #parallel: true # Runs test in parallel using settings above
#        env:
          # For recording and parallelization to work you must set your CYPRESS_RECORD_KEY
#          CYPRESS_RECORD_KEY: ${{ secrets.CYPRESS_RECORD_KEY }}
#          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

      - name: Upload screenshots
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
        with:
          name: cypress-snapshots
          path: shop/cypress/screenshots

This is somehow been executed in github actions twice, once with the browser I have defined and another time with electron browser. I can see the node versions are different.

[MikeMcC399]

@Shashikapiletilevi

The start parameter is intended to start a dev server. It is not designed to run the Cypress tests.

uses: cypress-io/github-action@v5 on its own will run the Cypress tests.

Remove

start: npm run cypress:run

and use the browser parameter to specify which browser you want to run the tests with, for example:

with:
    browser: chrome

[Shashikapiletilevi]

@MikeMcC399 Thanks. You are correct, that was my issue :)

[MikeMcC399]

@Shashikapiletilevi

You are correct, that was my issue

I'm happy that you have been able to correct your issue! I will make some documentation suggestions to better explain how the action works.