13 posts tagged with "Software Testing"

Here's what we cover in this article:

• Motivation to perform e2e testing on browser extensions.
• Why Puppeteer and known limitations.
• A complete example of a functional chrome extension and a sample React application.
• A complete example of a puppeteer + jest set up to run your automation.

All the code referenced in this article can be found in our repo tweak-extension/puppeteer-test-browser-ext.

There might be a few reasons why we would want to delay an HTTP request:

• You want to test how your UI behaves to a slow response from an upstream service.
• There's a race condition in my code, and I suspect that it happens when the request to A is slower than the request B.
• You want to show off that beautiful loading animation you've been working on all day!

A Pragmatic Mocking Tool​

When I first started my career in the software industry, I began to get familiar with Single-page applications and how they interact with servers, mainly through HTTP requests to retrieve or send data to the end-user. If you're working with the front end, there's a very high chance you found yourself in one (or multiple) of the following scenarios.