JavaScript E2E testing
Various frameworks are helpful for unit testing in JavaScript. They are as follows:
- Selenium WebDriver
- Cypress
- Playwright
- Puppeteer
- Karma
Next, we will explore each of the libraries, discuss their popularities, similarities, and differences, and look at why you should choose any of these libraries for your E2E testing solution.
Selenium WebDriver
Selenium WebDriver is the most popular E2E testing software. It’s a web framework that allows you to execute cross-browser tests by automating web-based application testing to verify that it performs as expected:
Figure 11.1 – A diagram showing Selenium statistics
Some of the growth statistics of the Selenium library at the time of writing, according to GitHub (https://github.com/seleniumhq/selenium), include more than 25.4k GitHub Stars and about 172k GitHub Usage, making Selenium among the most popular testing frameworks.