Automatically test your Orchard Core app's UI

[Piedone]

As seen on TV: Everything you need to do UI testing for an Orchard Core app is included in our newly open-sourced Lombiq UI Testing Toolbox! With such UI tests you can automatically verify if everything works in your Orchard app, including checking for server-side or client-side exceptions, HTML markup or accessibility issues. And thoroughly explained samples are included. And when you get ahold of it it's kind of... fun?

[hishamco]

Seems I need to spend some time to check this on, while I'm interesting on Software Testing in general

[hishamco]

I'm with you for using Selenium or any framework on top of it like Limbiq Toolbox over Cypress

[Skrypt]

One suggestion would be to make it clearer on the repository documentation. Because the first thing you want to know is which framework it uses. We could easily call this module OrchardCore.Selenium.Tests ... and those who wants to use Selenium over Cypress could be interested in your module over our supported one (Cypress). Nothing wrong having multiple implementations of functional tests frameworks ; but for discovery purpose if I search for "Orchard Core + Selenium" in Google, I should get a result pointing to your repository.

[Piedone]

Great feedback! I've made it clearer in the docs/description which tools, including Selenium, are used: https://github.com/Lombiq/UI-Testing-Toolbox

[hishamco]

I vote to make Selenuim tests as first class citizen along side with Cypress, then we can weight the pros & cons. Again writing unit, functional, integration tests is easy with managed languages

[Skrypt]

One thing to not forget. Functional tests can often be required to be written by people who builds frontend stuff. And often, they won't want to build a specific C# module to do so. It's often easier to just use Cypress or Selenium and compose javascript code on the frontend because it doesn't require to be compiled to work. So both frameworks have their advantages/inconvenients.

I think what draws me more to Cypress is it's interactive test runner which works like a charm so far.