'How to run tests outside of integration folder in Cypress

I have project B linked to project A with npm link and am trying to run tests from B in A. Project A builds the entire front end and could use other modules than just B and so I want to be able have the test runner use A and its tests but also use tests from the linked project (assuming the linked projects all use similar Cypress directory structures). I first tried this by setting the testFiles attribute in the config to an array like [/path/to/ProjectATestingRoot/integration/**/*.*", "/path/to/ProjectBTestingRoot/integration/**/*.*"] and running Cypress with integrationFolder to be from project A. While I'm able to see all my tests when I open Cypress, only project A's tests can be run. When I run project B's they get stuck when the browser loads the test and displays the "Your tests are loading..." screen for eternity.

Is there any way that I could run tests from outside the set integration folder? I thought I could write a little plugin to copy the testing files over but that seems more laborious than needed.

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Solution 1:^[1]

Using spec should solve the problem

npx cypress run --spec [abloluteFolderPath}

Solution 2:^[2]

  "testFiles": "**/*.{feature,spec.tsx}",
  "integrationFolder": ".",
  "ignoreTestFiles": "**/node_modules/**/*{feature,spec.js}"

Add this to your cypress.json. It adds all the files with .spec.tsx ignoring the ones inside the node_module.

https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress-example-recipes/tree/master/examples/unit-testing__application-code

Solution 3:^[3]

There are 2 options

1 You can specify integrationFolder in the cypress.json

 {
      //....
      "integrationFolder": "cypress/tests"
      // or
      // "integrationFolder": "tests"
      
  }

More information https://docs.cypress.io/guides/references/configuration#Folders-Files

2 You can specify integration folder for each test run

npx cypress --config integrationFolder=cypress/tests
npx cypress --config integrationFolder=tests

More information https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/2256#issuecomment-544408366

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