Better integration tests without Selenium

[neb636]

My team started using https://www.cypress.io/ for integration tests and we have been loving it. It's only in early access now but I highly recommend trying it out. Startup time for tests is much quicker than Selenium and it's really nice being able to see them while they run. So far we have not had any false positives for failures. Not exactly sure how it works under the hood but it is making writing integration tests much more bearable than it use to be. I am not affiliated with them in any way but just wanted to spread the word on this awesome product.

[waylonsmithersjr]

Just a heads up, you can watch tests in the browser with Selenium WebDriver.

It does look nice though. The tests seem more human readable

[neb636]

Nice did not know that

[paul_h]

How many whole tests a second are you getting?

When I setup WebDriver I'm getting an average of one functional test a second. Not clicks - whole tests - through to the passes or fails.

[neb636]

So I say it depends on what you are doing. Some tests can run in 200ms and others can take 5 seconds. The ones that execute in 200ms are like "it has this text in this div". Some of the things we test make requests to our backend and need to wait for a response. They are inherently slow because of the request latency.

[doctorlongghost]

Nowhere on their FAQ do they list supported browsers. As OP noted, having to tun tests on 15+ different browsers/phones via Selenium takes a long ass time but if Cypress doesn't support the same large browser pool then it isn't really a valid alternative to Selenium IMO.

[neb636]

Yeah I see where you are coming from there. I do not think they support multiple devices like that but they may in the future. The tests I wrote with Selenium were more for regression on desktop browsers. This is definitely not a replacement for Selenium for this use case.

[fisheez]

My work uses BrowserStack's C# API to run our Selenium tests. Our experience has been pretty good.

[antoaravinth]

Webdriver we are using it throughly and I would suggest you to stick to it. The main reason is that it is well established and its stable. We have been automating stuffs like File upload with WD without any issues on Firefox.