Browser GUI Integration Tests are notorious to be flaky and unreliable. This is not true and we can write reliable and flexible Browser GUI Integration Tests.
To explore how we can write reliable and flexible Browser GUI Integration Tests, he will touch on the topics:

  • Why is it important that GUI Integration Tests are reliable and flexible?
  • What are the causes of unreliable GUI Integration Tests?
  • 5 solutions to improve reliability and flexibility are:
    • Converting complicated GUI Integration Tests to GUI Unit Tests.
    • Use Node.js and Puppeteer to write GUI Tests.
    • Adopt Good GUI Integration Test Code Architecture. We proposed an architecture known as Model, Workflow & Test (MWT).
    • Employ retries in test code.
    • Parameterized test suite to work with multiple environments

Takeaways from the topic:

  • The code architecture of Model, Workflow, and Test helps make GUI tests maintainable and reusable.
  • By probability theory, a mildly sporadic test can be turned into a reliable test by using retries.
  • Make the URL that the test is testing configurable via environment variables or system properties.
  • Node.js is a fantastic programming language for rapid test development. Puppeteer is a great browser control API library

 

September 30 @ 13:15
13:15 — 14:00 (45′)

Yao Hong Kok