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Yes I like this approach, it's more in line with our unit tests, which is more intuitive...using copilot to migrate them makes sense, and will ensure we have a new baseline to work from. it might be an idea to share this approach in a knowledge sharing session too, so everybody is onboard. |
We're already using @testing-library for our react code, the library for cypress brings the same benefits - it will allow us to write end to end tests that better mimic user behaviour by interacting with elements based on their role/text/labels rather than their classes. As well as making the specs easier to follow and de-coupled from our class names, it helps to ensure our site is accessible (i.e form elements have labels). To demonstrate this I've written added a new test to work with multiple files. If we like this approach, we can change over other specs as we write or update them. Note that cypress testing library doesn't seem to have direct support for the Shadow DOM yet (see testing-library/dom-testing-library#413 ) but we still works if we load the shadow DOM using the cypress finder. One quirk I found is that `findByLabelText` doesn't work from the root shadow dom element which is why I've called it on `children()`.
cypress aliases let you share values between setup and files. See [1] [1] https://docs.cypress.io/app/core-concepts/variables-and-aliases
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Related to https://github.com/RaspberryPiFoundation/digital-editor-issues/issues/878
We're already using https://github.com/testing-library for our react unit tests code, the library for cypress brings the same benefits. It will allow us to write end to end tests that better mimic user behaviour by interacting with elements based on their role/text/labels rather than their classes. As well as making the specs easier to follow and de-coupled from our class names, it helps to ensure our site is accessible (e.g. form elements have labels).
To demonstrate this I've written added a new test to work with multiple files. If we like this approach, we can change over other specs as we write or update them.
Note that cypress testing library doesn't seem to have direct support for the Shadow DOM yet (see testing-library/dom-testing-library#413 ) but we still works if we load the shadow DOM using the cypress finder. One quirk I found is that
findByLabelTextdoesn't work from the root shadow DOM element which is why I've called it onchildren().This branch is based off of
update-cypress. If we're happy I will merge to main after that branch.Feedback wanted: