diff --git a/launchable/test_runners/cypress.py b/launchable/test_runners/cypress.py
index 53e90c955..1283dd2a0 100644
--- a/launchable/test_runners/cypress.py
+++ b/launchable/test_runners/cypress.py
@@ -15,8 +15,9 @@ def record_tests(client, reports):
     def parse_func(p: str) -> ET.Element:
         tree = ET.parse(p)
         for suites in tree.iter("testsuites"):
-            filepath = suites.find(
-                './/testsuite[@name="Root Suite"]').get("file")
+            if len(suites)==0:
+                continue
+            filepath = suites.find('./testsuite[@name="Root Suite"]').get("file")
             for suite in suites:
                 suite.attrib.update({"filepath": filepath})
         return tree
diff --git a/tests/data/cypress/empty.json b/tests/data/cypress/empty.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b74057ed5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/data/cypress/empty.json
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+{"events": []}
diff --git a/tests/data/cypress/empty.xml b/tests/data/cypress/empty.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4e9422629
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/data/cypress/empty.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<testsuites name="Mocha Tests" time="0.0000" tests="0" failures="0">
+</testsuites>
diff --git a/tests/test_runners/test_cypress.py b/tests/test_runners/test_cypress.py
index 2a991cf3c..8eedbadba 100644
--- a/tests/test_runners/test_cypress.py
+++ b/tests/test_runners/test_cypress.py
@@ -36,3 +36,17 @@ def test_subset_cypress(self, mock_post):
         expected = self.load_json_from_file(
             self.test_files_dir.joinpath('subset_result.json'))
         self.assert_json_orderless_equal(expected, payload)
+
+
+    @mock.patch('requests.request')
+    def test_empty_xml(self, mock_post):
+        # parse empty test report XML
+        result = self.cli('record', 'tests',  '--session', self.session,
+                          'cypress', str(self.test_files_dir) + "/empty.xml")
+        self.assertEqual(result.exit_code, 0)
+
+        payload = self.gzipped_json_payload(mock_post)
+        expected = self.load_json_from_file(
+            self.test_files_dir.joinpath('empty.json'))
+
+        self.assert_json_orderless_equal(expected, payload)