End-to-end testing
End-to-end testing is a testing method where an application is tested as a complete entity. Usually, these tests consist of running the entire application with the frontend and the backend in an automated way and verifying that the entire system works.
In end-to-end tests, we usually want to test the happy path to confirm that everything works as expected.
To test our application end to end, we will be using Cypress, a very popular testing framework that works by executing the tests in a headless browser. This means that the tests will be running in a real browser environment. In addition to Cypress, since we have become familiar with the React Testing Library, we will use the Testing Library plugin for Cypress to interact with the page.
For our application, we want to test two flows of the application:
- Dashboard flow
- Public flow
Dashboard flow
The dashboard flow is the flow for organization admins where we want to test authenticating...
