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Frontend Testing Tool #97

Open mikeselander opened 5 years ago

mikeselander commented 5 years ago

We have casper.js loaded by default in this repo for (I assume) use as a frontend testing interface. I've never seen this used on one of our projects and I think we should open a discussion on what tool we should use as the canonical frontend testing tool.

I've heard K. Adam recommend Jest for JS testing and have heard good things about Cypress or a similar system for e2e integration testing.

Any thoughts on what our default tool of choice for frontend testing should be?

mikeselander commented 5 years ago

Also worth noting that Phantom.js (Casper's underlying tech) is no longer maintained.

mattheu commented 5 years ago

If love to see something put in place here.

I’ve used puppeteer a little which is a node api for headless chrome and pretty nice to work with. Puppeteer + cucumber a JS framework for writing end to end tests in plain language - it is pretty nice - I’ve experimented with it a little but not got too far.

Ultimately I ran into issues with having to log in to WP, and these ar something which I think WordHat solves. This is similar although using Behat which is a PHP implementation of similar natural language tests. It uses Mink as a browser