Test frameworks

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• Cypress

  End-to-end framework for developer productivity with reliable testing and a first-class dev experience

• Jasmine
• Jest

  Simple and fast

• Karma
• Mocha

  Flexible - make your own choices

• Nightwatch

  An end-to-end testing framework that can be used to test web applications and websites, as well as Node.js unit and integration testing.

• Puppeteer
• Taiko

  A browser automation tool with a concise API. So you don't have to be verbose and precise like in Selenium.

  You can write steps in interactive mode with a browser view on the side, then at the end you can convert your steps into a test that you can run again.

  Supports Chromium based browsers(Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Opera) and Firefox.

• Vue Test Utils

  A low-level framework, for access to Vue APIs.

• Vue Testing Library

  A high-level library to make things easy.

• codecept

Content

Uncategorized Links

• Top 5 JS Testing Frameworks
• Testing
  • From the Vue 3 guide. It covers an overview of testing which is useful even if not using Vue.
• JS Tests
  • In Dev Cheatsheets

There are various NPM packages available to help you write tests for these areas.

Overview

Kinds of tests

• Unit tests (like functions)
• Integration tests (like database or API calls)
• End-to-end tests (like checking the production site is live and rendering expected content)

What code to test

• Backend
  • Test the server-side Node.js as pages or API requests.
• Frontend
  • Test the browser side, as HTML and JS.
  • A virtual or real browser is needed to render a JS component in the DOM.
  • Snapshots - compare rendered versions of components.

Related

See Test frameworks in Code Cookbook.