Setup

1. Download nodejs + how to install nodejs

• If it is already installed, check in terminal:

node -v

2. Create package.json execute in terminal:

npm init -y

3. Edit package.json, add devDependencies (these won't be installed globally, but only for this project)

"devDependencies": {
    "@types/jest": "^26.0.20",
    "jest": "^26.6.3",   
    "jest-playwright-preset": "^1.4.5",  
    "playwright": "^1.27.0",   
    "typescript": "^4.8.4" ,
    "ts-jest": "^26.5.0"
   }

4. Install dev dependencies by:

npm i

5. Configure typescript

Typescript file will be compiled in javascript so need to:

• create tsconfig.json in order to specify compiler

{
    "compilerOptions": {
        "target": "ES6",
        "strict": true,
        "module": "commonjs",
        "sourceMap": true
    }
}

6. Configure jest in package.json

"jest": {
    "transform": {
      "^.+\\.tsx?$": "ts-jest"
    },
    "moduleFileExtensions": [
      "ts",
      "tsx",
      "js",
      "jsx",
      "json",
      "node"
    ]
  }

  "scripts": {
    "test": "jest"
  }

7. Configure dotenv in order to use environment variables (for secrets)

Decided to use this package because it has 0 dependencies.

npm install dotenv --save

Use dotenv with import

8. Install jest-cli

npm i -g jest-cli

Run tests

Run all tests

npm test

OR

jest test

jest runs by default all tests in parallel, so in order to run them sequentially:

jest -i

Run one test suite

jest <test_suite>.test.ts

Results

All tests

Test suite: checkout.test.ts

Generate code with codegen

See documentation about codegen

npx playwright codegen <url_to_test>

Resources

Tools & frameworks

• TypeScript
• Playwright
• JEST - javascript testing framework

Free websites for UI testing

• DemoQA
• Sauce Demo
• Letcode
• UI elements on herokuapp
• Test pages for automating