There is a difference between integration testing (Cypress UI click through UI) and backend unit testing. We run integration tests with Cypress and then rspec

There is a difference between integration testing (Cypress UI click through UI) and backend unit testing. We run integration tests with Cypress and then rspec or some other Rails testing platform for the backend. Cypress uses fixtures so ideally you would not let it hit a backend API unless you don't care about reproducibility of the response. For example a PUT will augment the data on the backend so when you run the test again the backend data will probably give you a different response to assert and fail your expected.