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+# Cypress Tests for Backstage
+
+Hey 👋 Welcome to the Cypress tests for Backstage. They're designed to be run against the `packages/app` folder in the main repo, and be some form of smoke tests to make sure that we don't break any core functionality.
+
+They run part of the PR build, and are triggered from the `.github/workflows/tugboat.yml` file.
+
+The main app gets built up part of a [Tugboat Build](https://tugboat.qa), which when complete, sends a `deployment event` to the PR triggering the aforementioned workflow.
+
+### Running Locally
+
+In order to make typescript happy, this `cypress` package is separate from all the Jest dependencies in the monorepo workspaces setup.
+
+You can run the e2e tests locally pointing at your local running version like so:
+
+```sh
+cd cypress
+yarn install
+yarn cypress run
+```
+
+You can open up the `cypress` console by using `yarn cypress open`.
+
+You can also run towards any Backstage installation by using the Cypress Environment Variable overrides.
+
+```sh
+CYPRESS_baseUrl="http://demo.backstage.io" yarn cypress run
+```