How to do calculations in cypress testing

April 27, 2022

I need to go through a group of tags that have a specific class associated with them and have a value

    <div class="ratinglabel col-6">
        <label>Area 1: Professional Engagement 
            <span test-data="area_1_Scor">
                (4/16)
            </span>
        </label>
    </div>

and i want to find (4/16*5) and save them in var to compare them with another value

i did this :

    cy.get('[test-data="area_1_Scor"]', { timeout: 2000 })
    .then(function($ele) {   
      var countOfElements = $ele*5;
      cy.log(countOfElements);
    });
  })

and

   cy.get('[test-data="area_1_Scor"]').each(($li, index, $lis) => {
      var sum = 0;
      Cypress.$('[test-data="area_1_Scor"]').each(function() {
        sum = +Cypress.$(this).text()*5||0;
      });
      cy.log("Total sum of all span elements:"+sum);
      
      })

but log appear as NaN in first case and 0 in second
So how can i do it ?

>Solution :

You’re almost there (first block), but you need to 1) extract the text from the element and 2) parse the text into numbers

cy.get('[test-data="area_1_Scor"]', { timeout: 2000 })
  .invoke('text')
  .then(text => {
    const numerator = +text.split('/')[0].replace('(', '')
    const denominator = +text.split('/')[1].replace(')', '')
    const countOfElements = numerator * 5 / denominator;
    cy.log(countOfElements);
  });
})

Your 2nd block indicates there’s multiple elements, if so use .each() like this

let sum = 0;
cy.get('[test-data="area_1_Scor"]', {timeout: 2000})
  .each($el => {

    cy.wrap($el).invoke('text')
      .then(text => {
        const numerator = +text.split('/')[0].replace('(', '')
        const denominator = +text.split('/')[1].replace(')', '')
        const countOfElements = numerator * 5 / denominator;
        sum += countOfElements
      }) 
  })
})
.then(() => cy.log(sum))

To test the math

const times5 = (text) => {
  const numerator = +text.split('/')[0].replace('(', '')
  const denominator = +text.split('/')[1].replace(')', '')
  return Math.round(numerator * 5 / denominator)
}

let sum = 0;
cy.get('[test-data="area_1_Scor"]', {timeout: 2000})
  .each($el => {
    cy.wrap($el).invoke('text')
      .then(times5)                   // text is passed in automatically
      .then(result => sum += result)
  })
})
.then(() => cy.log(sum))

So you can check the function with