Good point, I'd gotten used to that and forgotten how it is kind of counterintuitive at first. Our base test helper object does this: get root() { // It

Good point, I'd gotten used to that and forgotten how it is kind of counterintuitive at first. Our base test helper object does this: get root() { // It is important here to run cy.get() // each time this property is accessed. // Lots of methods of this class chain // off of `this.root` so it needs to be // re-evaluated every time. return cy.get(rootComponentCss); } find(selector: string, options?: any) { return this.root.find(selector, options); } ...so that component-specific test helper objects (subclasses) can just do something like: get sendMissileAlertButton() { this.root.find('.x-hawaii-missile-incoming'); } That way, it looks up the target element every time it is used in a test. And in tests, you can just do: tester.root.find('select.foo').select('hoge'); tester.sendMissileAlertButton.click(); EDIT: fixed code example, sorry! ;-)