Investigate and begin discussions for the testing of UI code in VEuPathDB projects.

[adnauseum]

Playwright

Playwright is an automated browser testing tool that supports: Chromium, WebKit, and Firefox. Test on Windows, Linux, and macOS, locally or on CI, headless or headed with native mobile emulation of Google Chrome for Android and Mobile Safari.

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Parts:

• Playwright for automated browser.
• Testing Library for less brittle, UX-driven selectors.
  • Synergy! This is the tool used for unit tests.
• Jest for assertion library.
  • Synergy! This is the tool used for unit tests.

Links:

• https://playwright.dev/
• https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-playwright.playwright
• https://github.com/testing-library/playwright-testing-library
• https://github.com/playwright-community/jest-playwright
• Component testing, integration testing, possibly E2E.
  • Capturing user stories.
  • Accelerate onboarding.
  • Providing updates to stakeholders.
• Non-developers generate basic tests with Playwright's test code generator?
  • Developers would have to tweak to reduce brittle selectors.

[dmfalke]

This looks very cool. The storybook integration seems promising, but I don't fully understand how it integrates. I need to read more about it.

[adnauseum]

This looks very cool. The storybook integration seems promising, but I don't fully understand how it integrates. I need to read more about it.

Totally! I'm planning on doing my research and updating this issue to talk about use cases and plans for integrating it if we find it useful! This issues very much a work in progress. I'd also like to evaluate other tools too. I used Puppeteer years ago, but I've heard that it's improved a ton since then!