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Sitting in the car back home I have been reading the documentation of testcafe (from DevExpress) on my mobile. A node.js tool to automate
end-to-end web testing.
https://devexpress.github.io/testcafe
Interesting. Free and open source, js & typescript, integrated testing and reporting, ui or headless browsers, can integrate with MS devops pipelines, active development, regular new releases.
devexpress.github.io
A node.js tool to automate end-to-end web testing | TestCafe
Use TestCafe to write tests in JS or TypeScript, run them and view results. TestCafe runs on Windows, MacOS, and Linux and takes 1 minute to set up.
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bdukes [19 hours ago]
https://www.cypress.io/oss-plan is the other big name in that space
JavaScript End to End Testing Framework | cypress.io
Open Source Plan
Fast, easy and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser. Install Cypress in seconds and take the pain out of front-end testing.
EPT [15 hours ago]
Do you have any experience and/or preference of we want to choose?
bdukes [15 hours ago]
no, I haven't investigated either enough to have a strong opinion
David Poindexter [15 hours ago]
Interesting - I’m going to look deeper into both of these
EPT [14 hours ago]
Me too. @David Poindexter Let's keep in contact about this. I know that @Timo Breumelhof is interested too.
David Poindexter [14 hours ago]
Will do - @Vicenç Masanas and @Timo Breumelhof are working to organize testing efforts.
EPT [3 hours ago]
There is an article from a year back that compares the 2 (testcafe, cypress):
https://medium.com/yld-engineering-...d0303d2103
Medium
Evaluating Cypress and TestCafe for end to end testing
Two frameworks have appeared on the scene recently eschewing the long held belief that end to end testing of web applications means…
EPT [3 hours ago]
And a more recent one:
https://xebia.com/blog/cypress-and-...one/
and
https://xebia.com/blog/cypress-and-...two/