diff --git a/config/cypress.config.js b/config/cypress.config.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4eeb6845a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/cypress.config.js
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+const { defineConfig } = require("cypress");
+
+module.exports = defineConfig({
+    e2e: {
+        setupNodeEvents(on, config) {
+
+        },
+        fixturesFolder: "test/cypress/fixtures",
+        screenshotsFolder: "test/cypress/screenshots",
+        videosFolder: "test/cypress/videos",
+        downloadsFolder: "test/cypress/downloads",
+        supportFile: "test/cypress/support/e2e.js",
+        baseUrl: "http://localhost:3002",
+        defaultCommandTimeout: 10000,
+        pageLoadTimeout: 60000,
+        viewportWidth: 1920,
+        viewportHeight: 1080,
+        specPattern: [
+            "test/cypress/e2e/setup.cy.js",
+            "test/cypress/e2e/**/*.js"
+        ],
+    },
+    env: {
+        baseUrl: "http://localhost:3002",
+    },
+});
diff --git a/cypress.config.ts b/cypress.config.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index d97e08758..000000000
--- a/cypress.config.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-import { defineConfig } from "cypress";
-
-export default defineConfig({
-    e2e: {
-        baseUrl: "http://localhost:3002",
-        defaultCommandTimeout: 10000,
-        pageLoadTimeout: 60000,
-        viewportWidth: 1920,
-        viewportHeight: 1080,
-        specPattern: ["cypress/e2e/setup.cy.ts", "cypress/e2e/**/*.ts"],
-    },
-    env: {
-        baseUrl: "http://localhost:3002",
-    },
-});
diff --git a/cypress/e2e/setup.cy.ts b/cypress/e2e/setup.cy.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 94e18edef..000000000
--- a/cypress/e2e/setup.cy.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-import { actor } from "../support/actors/actor";
-import { DEFAULT_USER_DATA } from "../support/const/user-data";
-import { DashboardPage } from "../support/pages/dasboard-page";
-import { SetupPage } from "../support/pages/setup-page";
-
-describe("user can create a new account on setup page", () => {
-    before(() => {
-        cy.visit("/setup");
-    });
-
-    it("user can create new account", () => {
-        cy.url().should("be.equal", SetupPage.url);
-        actor.setupTask.fillAndSubmitSetupForm(
-            DEFAULT_USER_DATA.username,
-            DEFAULT_USER_DATA.password,
-            DEFAULT_USER_DATA.password
-        );
-
-        cy.url().should("be.equal", DashboardPage.url);
-        cy.get('[role="alert"]')
-            .should("be.visible")
-            .and("contain.text", "Added Successfully.");
-    });
-});
diff --git a/cypress/support/actors/actor.ts b/cypress/support/actors/actor.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 680c26ce7..000000000
--- a/cypress/support/actors/actor.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-import { SetupTask } from "../tasks/setup-task";
-
-class Actor {
-    setupTask: SetupTask = new SetupTask();
-}
-
-const actor = new Actor();
-export { actor };
diff --git a/cypress/support/e2e.ts b/cypress/support/e2e.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index f887c29ae..000000000
--- a/cypress/support/e2e.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-import "./commands";
diff --git a/cypress/support/tasks/setup-task.ts b/cypress/support/tasks/setup-task.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 866e3ca5c..000000000
--- a/cypress/support/tasks/setup-task.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-import { SetupPage } from "../pages/setup-page";
-
-export class SetupTask {
-    fillAndSubmitSetupForm(
-        username: string,
-        password: string,
-        passwordRepeat: string
-    ) {
-        cy.get(SetupPage.usernameInput).type(username);
-        cy.get(SetupPage.passWordInput).type(password);
-        cy.get(SetupPage.passwordRepeatInput).type(passwordRepeat);
-
-        cy.get(SetupPage.submitSetupForm).click();
-    }
-}
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 2357bfe4a..479876a63 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -62,7 +62,8 @@
         "build-dist-and-restart": "npm run build && npm run start-server-dev",
         "start-pr-test": "node extra/checkout-pr.js && npm install && npm run dev",
         "cy:test": "node test/prepare-test-server.js && node server/server.js --port=3002 --data-dir=./data/test/ --e2e",
-        "cy:run": "npx cypress run --browser chrome --headless"
+        "cy:run": "npx cypress run --browser chrome --headless --config-file ./config/cypress.config.js",
+        "cypress-open": "concurrently -k -r \"node test/prepare-test-server.js && node server/server.js --port=3002 --data-dir=./data/test/\" \"cypress open --config-file ./config/cypress.config.js\""
     },
     "dependencies": {
         "@louislam/sqlite3": "~15.0.6",
diff --git a/src/util.js b/src/util.js
index d5e3617fd..d766feb76 100644
--- a/src/util.js
+++ b/src/util.js
@@ -280,9 +280,9 @@ function getCryptoRandomInt(min, max) {
 }
 exports.getCryptoRandomInt = getCryptoRandomInt;
 /**
- * Generate a secret
- * @param length Lenght of secret to generate
- * @returns
+ * Generate a random alphanumeric string of fixed length
+ * @param length Length of string to generate
+ * @returns string
  */
 function genSecret(length = 64) {
     let secret = "";
diff --git a/test/cypress/e2e/setup.cy.js b/test/cypress/e2e/setup.cy.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..579604039
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cypress/e2e/setup.cy.js
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+const actor = require("../support/actors/actor");
+const userData = require("../support/const/user-data");
+const dashboardPage = require("../support/pages/dashboard-page");
+const setupPage = require("../support/pages/setup-page");
+
+describe("user can create a new account on setup page", () => {
+    before(() => {
+        cy.visit("/setup");
+    });
+    it("user can create new account", () => {
+        cy.url().should("be.equal", setupPage.SetupPage.url);
+        actor.actor.setupTask.fillAndSubmitSetupForm(userData.DEFAULT_USER_DATA.username, userData.DEFAULT_USER_DATA.password, userData.DEFAULT_USER_DATA.password);
+        cy.url().should("be.equal", dashboardPage.DashboardPage.url);
+        cy.get('[role="alert"]')
+            .should("be.visible")
+            .and("contain.text", "Added Successfully.");
+    });
+});
diff --git a/cypress/plugins/index.js b/test/cypress/plugins/index.js
similarity index 100%
rename from cypress/plugins/index.js
rename to test/cypress/plugins/index.js
diff --git a/test/cypress/support/actors/actor.js b/test/cypress/support/actors/actor.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9775880b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cypress/support/actors/actor.js
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+const setupTask = require("../tasks/setup-task");
+class Actor {
+    constructor() {
+        this.setupTask = new setupTask.SetupTask();
+    }
+}
+const actor = new Actor();
+exports.actor = actor;
diff --git a/cypress/support/commands.ts b/test/cypress/support/commands.js
similarity index 100%
rename from cypress/support/commands.ts
rename to test/cypress/support/commands.js
diff --git a/cypress/support/const/user-data.ts b/test/cypress/support/const/user-data.js
similarity index 62%
rename from cypress/support/const/user-data.ts
rename to test/cypress/support/const/user-data.js
index ee2264ddd..983597bd6 100644
--- a/cypress/support/const/user-data.ts
+++ b/test/cypress/support/const/user-data.js
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-export const DEFAULT_USER_DATA = {
+exports.DEFAULT_USER_DATA = {
     username: "testuser",
     password: "testuser123",
 };
diff --git a/test/cypress/support/e2e.js b/test/cypress/support/e2e.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..449ab857b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cypress/support/e2e.js
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+require("./commands");
diff --git a/cypress/support/pages/dasboard-page.ts b/test/cypress/support/pages/dashboard-page.js
similarity index 62%
rename from cypress/support/pages/dasboard-page.ts
rename to test/cypress/support/pages/dashboard-page.js
index 48660dc1d..fc2d67e1a 100644
--- a/cypress/support/pages/dasboard-page.ts
+++ b/test/cypress/support/pages/dashboard-page.js
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-export const DashboardPage = {
+exports.DashboardPage = {
     url: Cypress.env("baseUrl") + "/dashboard",
 };
diff --git a/cypress/support/pages/setup-page.ts b/test/cypress/support/pages/setup-page.js
similarity index 90%
rename from cypress/support/pages/setup-page.ts
rename to test/cypress/support/pages/setup-page.js
index 8c1b9cfa3..44a525a85 100644
--- a/cypress/support/pages/setup-page.ts
+++ b/test/cypress/support/pages/setup-page.js
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-export const SetupPage = {
+exports.SetupPage = {
     url: Cypress.env("baseUrl") + "/setup",
     usernameInput: '[data-cy="username-input"]',
     passWordInput: '[data-cy="password-input"]',
diff --git a/test/cypress/support/tasks/setup-task.js b/test/cypress/support/tasks/setup-task.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..205f78c23
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cypress/support/tasks/setup-task.js
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+const setupPage = require("../pages/setup-page");
+
+class SetupTask {
+    fillAndSubmitSetupForm(username, password, passwordRepeat) {
+        cy.get(setupPage.SetupPage.usernameInput).type(username);
+        cy.get(setupPage.SetupPage.passWordInput).type(password);
+        cy.get(setupPage.SetupPage.passwordRepeatInput).type(passwordRepeat);
+        cy.get(setupPage.SetupPage.submitSetupForm).click();
+    }
+}
+exports.SetupTask = SetupTask;
diff --git a/tsconfig.json b/tsconfig.json
index cd5f7c5dd..c54546424 100644
--- a/tsconfig.json
+++ b/tsconfig.json
@@ -11,11 +11,9 @@
         "removeComments": false,
         "preserveConstEnums": true,
         "sourceMap": false,
-        "strict": true,
-        "types": ["cypress"]
+        "strict": true
     },
     "files": [
-        "./src/util.ts",
-    ],
-    "include": ["cypress/**/*.ts"]
+        "./src/util.ts"
+    ]
 }