Writing browser automation tests with JavaScript-based tools

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There are lots of tools for writing Browser-automation tests in JavaScript, some integrating with test libs like mocha/jasmine/qunit, some that roll their own DSLs. Some examples:

• Nightwatch
• Zombie
• Casper
• Protractor
• The Intern
• Testium

I have project experience with most of these and can offer some advice and help on which to use (and why I currently tend to use none of them, in favor of Ruby & Capybara). That said, there are some interesting conversations to be had:

• The perceived vs. actual benefit of JavaScripting all-the-things
• The veritable graveyard of undermaintained and abandoned JS-based browser automation tools
• The frustrations caused by the fact that Node.js only exposing async HTTP calls means that using the Selenium wire API requires a new async network request for each-and-every Selenium automation call. This can cause a ton of code organization pain without Promise-based abstractions all the way up.

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