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🔴 Limitations

While Cypress offers powerful features like Time Travel Debugging, there are certain limitations you need to be aware of:

🚫 Issue: Missing Snapshots When Running Multiple Websites

  • Time Travel Debugging allows you to hover over the Command Log to view snapshots of each step in the test execution
  • However, when testing multiple websites at once, the snapshot feature stops working

What’s affected?

  • The ability to see what the application looked like at each step
  • The snapshot previews that normally appear when hovering over the Command Log

What’s NOT affected?

  • The Command Log results (logs remain intact and readable)
  • The overall test execution (tests still succeed or fail as expected)

✅ How to Fix This Issue

If snapshots or Time Travel Debugging are crucial for your test:

  • Test ONE website at a time
  • Follow the steps in “How to Run a Specific Website” to exclude other sites

If snapshots are optional and you only need the results from the Command Log:

  • You can run multiple websites at once without issues

📌 When Are Snapshots Important?

Some test cases require snapshots for verification, such as:

  • “The domain must pass Site24x7 Blacklist Check” – This test requires a snapshot of the blacklist results, which does not appear in the Command Log

If your test depends on visual confirmation, always ensure that snapshots are working by testing one website at a time

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