UI testing with taiko

[heralden]

Our ClojureScript unit tests are generally for testing that app-db is updated correctly in regards to events, so we still don't have a way to test interactions with the UI. For instance whether a dropdown selection is working (1214d78) or if a sort icon is colored when active (5e60218).

As opposed to Cypress, Taiko can be run with any test runner, making it easy to write taiko tests in the same files as our unit tests. The creators also claim that taiko is more reliable and maintainable than its alternatives.

Here's an example of taiko used inside a ClojureScript unit test.
https://github.com/filipesilva/create-cljs-app/blob/4bd7a633521d4a3759bf9435c5a0ce25a88c4cfe/template/src/e2e/core.cljs

[yochannah]

Sounds like a good plan!

[heralden]

A very detailed specification for UI and interaction testing can be found in the old im-tables repo:

https://github.com/intermine/im-tables/blob/dev/test/release-testing/procedure.md
https://github.com/intermine/im-tables/blob/dev/test/release-testing/spec.md