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Cypress users lack control over test timing and order

Cypress users report slow suites when navigation waits for the window load event even though the DOM is already usable. They also want to slow commands while debugging and control spec order. The reported workarounds—adding delays command by command and using numbered folders—are awkward; the requests span several years, so their current relevance needs validation.

For cypress end-to-end test developers. Mentioned from Sep 2016 to Mar 2022 on GitHub.

7 different people described this problem in 4 separate discussions.

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  1. This would be incredibly helpful for my tests as well - DOMContentLoaded will succeed, but window:load will not
  2. I am a newbie to Cypress. And trying to use it on our site that has lots and lots of blocking scripts & images which delays the onload event to trigger. If this feature - of completing cy.visit() on DOMContentLoaded event is available, it would be great
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