A Better Way to Front-end Test
Explore methods to enhance front-end testing by focusing on UI integration tests that stub back-end responses using Cypress. Understand how this approach helps simulate error scenarios in user registration flows, enabling independent front-end testing without relying fully on end-to-end tests, which may be impractical for all cases. This lesson guides you through writing robust and maintainable tests that ensure user-facing error messages are properly handled by the front-end.
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Introduction
Stubbing an AJAX request is easy and advantageous with Cypress because it allows us to concentrate on testing the front-end application instead of both the front-end and back-end. This is helpful because E2E tests are often considered the only solution to front-end testing problems. But they come with so many disadvantages that they are often discouraged by many developers.
Two of the three main E2E testing problems are front-end developer independence and edge case replication. Both of these issues can be combated easily with UI Integration Testing and back-end stubs. For instance, we can test the error paths that might ...