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What is an E2E Test?

What is an E2E Test?

In this lesson, you will explore the E2E test.

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An E2E test runs the whole web app in a headless browser. The front-end application interacts with the back-end and database, and checks everything works as expected. The E2E checks everything from the user interactions (the front end) to the business data (the back end).

E2E tests are typically slow because:

  • They need a working back-end application. You can not launch an E2E test without a server. So you, as a front-end developer, depend on the back-end developers and infrastructure to work. ...