Use Cucumber + Playwright to run functionnal test in browsers

[JeremiePat]

Regardless of the technology used to create our components, we need to set up a way to test them in browsers. The functional requirements are all the same but each individual implementation needs to setup its own environment.

To achieve that we plan to use :

• Cucumber to describe our tests with Gerkins syntax
• Playwright to drive browsers while running the tests

We expect some difficulties when it will come to implement Cucumber steps for each components technologies but we will manage this in dedicated issues.

Here we want to track:

• [x] Cucumber installation
• [x] Cucumber basic setup
• [x] Playwright installation
• [x] Playwright basic setup
• [x] One basic test running

[JeremiePat]

Note that CucumberJS has some issues in a Node ESM environment:

• CucumberJS is not ESM compliant yet: https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-js/pull/1649
• The cli config file can only be cucumber.js and must be written as a CommonJS module: https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-js/issues/1771

[JeremiePat]

CucumbreJS is currently lock to version 7.2.0 to have a minimum support for ESM (which makes our life way easier). Let's keep that issue open to track full ESM support by CucumberJS in the next couple of weeks/month. If it takes too long we will open with a new issue to avoid blocking our MVP.

[JeremiePat]

Moved to CucumberJS 8.0.0-rc2 which is working just fine 😁 Time to close this issue.