I am using Webpack to build a webapp that is designed for the browser.
After my build process I have two files: index.html and app.bundle.js
To my dismay I have found that the although the development Webpack configuration works the production configuration does not because of errors during minification.
I am looking for the most basic way to run a test that does the following:
Opens the index.html file (which contains <script defer="defer" src="app.bundle.js"> and sees if there are any errors when the script contained in app.bundle.js runs
That is it.
I need a full Browser environment (requestianimationframe, fetch, etc.)
I have tried JSDOM and I get Error: Uncaught [ReferenceError: fetch is not defined] which looks like it has a bunch of issues, and then there are a tremendous amount of overlapping libraries and tools like Phantom.js Zombie.js Pupeteer, headless-chrome etc. and I honestly can't figure out how to just open my app. I have tried to explore all of these tools but they are all complicated.
Ideally I wouldn't have to create a local webserver, but I'd be fine with that if this is what is required.
The 'best' way to do this IMHO, would be to have a full test environment that mirrors your production environment that you can deploy to and then run tests against, using a framework like WebdriverIO or Playwright. But that can be prohibitively expensive and requires a fair amount of devops work.
Your second best option is probably to configure a local webserver on whatever machine you run your tests on and spin up Selenium or Puppeteer tests there. Leveraging a framework like WebdriverIO or Playwright a basic sanity check test shouldn't take more than an hour or two to set up.
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I have written some tests for my website using selenium and javascript. I want to know the standard way of using this script in production. Locally I'm running chrome driver and testing my script. What I have tried is in start of my package.json I run my test node test.js && react-scripts start.What is the standard way of doing the same in production?
In case there is no any difference between running the tests on your local machine and the product environment there is no reason to use your tests differently on the production.
However, it is common to run the tests on production with Jenkins or other CI/CD tools on Unix server in headless mode or with Selenium Grid etc.
In this case you will have to adjust your tests for running with Selenium Grid or in headless mode respectively, to adjust them running on Unix etc.
All this depends on YOUR actual configuration, how YOU will use it.
There are multiple different ways of handling Selenium in production. For example, if you have an open source project, you may consider using GitHub Actions. Here's an example of a JavaScript Workflow from the Selenium Project: https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/actions/workflows/javascript.yml
That's probably a good place to start, since it is open source and you can see how they run tests. Once you've learned that, you can try out some of the other popular solutions out there if you want (Eg: Jenkins, Azure Pipelines, AWS, Google Cloud, CircleCI, GitLab, TravisCI, etc.)
There is no way for you to use selenium in production, considering that you need selenium in production, such as a crawler, what may be different are your dependencies, in development you will use the dependencies for testing, selenium will use the available driver, either in production or in development/testing.
Perhaps the arguments you use for the chosen browser may be different for the environments used (production, development, etc.), which doesn't make sense to me, because in the test you should reproduce the same scenario as in production.
My team is building a large React application. I am wanting to know if what we are trying to accomplish in regards to build and deployment are possible with Webpack.
Let’s say our team is building Google Admin. There are 4 modules/app within the admin that 4 different teams are focused on. There is then a console application that is the entry point to these 4 modules/apps. We want to be able to work on each of the modules independently and be able to deploy them independently.
How we have it setup right now is there would be 4 separate applications that are dev harnesses to build these modules. We build them and copy the distribution .js and .js.map files to the console's ./modules folder. We would reference these modules lazily using System.import.
Is it possible, while the console app is built and in production, to “swap out” the module-one.js and module-one.js.map files that the console depends on without having to rebuild and redeploy the entire console app?
Goals:
Do not package these apps for npm. This would definitely require the console app to update and rebuild.
Build any module and deploy just that specific module to production without having to rebuild the console application.
Do not redirect to separate SPAs.
I tried my best to explain the goal. Any input would be much appreciated. I have found nothing in my search.
webpack loads the modules into memory and watches the filesystem for changes, as long as webpack is running you shouldn't have an issue replacing any given module. However webpack will attempt to build the entire in memory bundle with each module change (as it has no way of knowing that your module is truly independent). The only thing I can thin of would be to write a shim between the console app and the modules that watches the files (like webpack) but only replaces the in memory version of the local file that was changed. Reading this I'm not even sure if it makes sense to me...
I am using Karma as my unit test runner. Generally speaking, it is awesome, but I am facing some annoying problem.
The website I am developing on is based on a quite large ui library with about 40000 files. All the resource from the library is loaded on use, so I have to set them all as 'served' files on the Karma server. Thus I will frequently meet the EMFILE error, which means I am opening too many files at the same time.
Of course I can modify the open file maximum through ulimit -n, but this is not as graceful as I expected, and loading tens of thousands files is really time-consuming. Furthermore, I am going to work on a shared machine which I do not have root auth.
I am currently using another http-server and let Karma server proxy all the lib files to it, but it is only a temporary solution.
So I am wondering if there is any way to avoid including all the library files as 'served'?
I am just trying to get my head round unit testing in Javascript and RequireJS. I am building a web-app and obviously only want to have tests run in development not production builds.
Questions:
Do you just test when you want to, or do you have JS tests running
on every page load when in development?
If tests are only on demand
then how do you trigger your tests to run? Query strings (eg.
?testing=true) or something like that?
I just need an idea of how people go about testing in development. I am using BackboneJS, RequireJS and jQuery on the front end with a NodeJS/ExpressJS server on the backend.
For a Backbone project at work we have a maven build process that runs our automated javascript tests through jsTestDriver, and we read the results with Sonar. I usually run the tests manually (with 'mvn test'), but I could easily tell maven every time I save a file, for example. I wrote a post that shows how to integrate QUnit, Requirejs, and code coverage with JSTD that is independent of Maven: js-test-driver+qunit+coverage+requirejs. It also contains links to a QUnitAdapter that is way more up-to-date and developed than the one on the jsTestDriver site. I'll update this post when I manage to write about how I got jsTestDriver working with Maven and Sonar. Hope it helps.
Grunt is a popular JS build tool. There's something called grunt-watch that can monitor certain files for change, and execute tasks accordingly. You could easily run unit tests with something like this on every save.
Usually end-to-end tests take longer, and we use the CI for that. I've seen a presentation on Meteor TDD that does end-to-end tests after every save though.
There are many end-to-end test frameworks, and they can run in a headless browser like phantom js using a build tool like grunt. Some frameworks open an actual browser to run the tests, but run via command line and report results using XML.
If you break out your components enough, the tests could have a small enough scope to run on each save.
For some core code I use JsUnit + Rhino on build server. For more complex bits (usually interface) I use selenium (it also runs on build server). I don't test anything on page load, I only use not-compressed versions of scripts.
I don't any solution for integration tests.
We have a rich web client. Our controllers and service facades are written in coffeescript (JavaScript) and jquery. In the past they would have been java.
To run our JavaScript jasmine tests from Jenkins/Hudson, we use java's junit and htmlunit to load a test oriented jsp page which includes the jasmine specs.
When the Htmlunit tries to run, it blows up trying to getPage() probably because of an XML parser class path which is extremely challenging to track down in our world.
We just want to be able to run our JavaScript tests from Jenkins and have it report failure if a JavaScript test does not pass. We are just using jsp and htmlunit in order to run JavaScript tests. Can we load the JavaScript tests and javascript code into a JavaScript engine with Jenkins as the thing that kicks it off? If so, how?
Sounds like you're in a Java environment. My jasmine-maven-plugin might be a good fit.
Jasmine Reporters would also be a solution. It has instructions for running headlessly via PhantomJS for example, and it can generate JUnit XML so Jenkins can understand the test results natively, graphing test count, duration, and failure over time.
Also, the "xvfb-run" wrapper often provided with xvfb is a great help here, so you can do "xvfb-run phantomjs.runner.sh ..." in a truly headless environment.
I've previously solved this problem by running the tests with a node.js plugin called jasmine-node
This solution of course requires node.js and a few node modules to properly run the jasmine tests. There is no real browser running the tests, but an emulated one using a module called jsdom, which basically creates a headless browser, and more specifically, a DOM, which the tests can interact with.
There's node modules for jQuery, underscore and propably other too, so these can be tested too. You can even skip the whole browser emulation if you'd rather run the tests in a browser, though I find it too cumbersome compared to automated Jenkins testing.
jasmine-node generates jUnit test reports, which Jenkins can interpret just fine.
I just realized there is some jenkins-jasmine-node plugin that might ease this process.
Grunt is your friend
use grunt http://gruntjs.com/
with grunt jasimine https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt-contrib-jasmine
with nodejs http://nodejs.org/
on jenkins using https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/NodeJS+Plugin
got this setup and it's really nice, plus this gives you a place to start making your build server do other nice things such as deployment, unit testing, etc you know, other nice things
Can you use selenium? That would actually use a real browser then and get as close to the real environment as possible.