End-to-end testing
End-to-end (E2E) testing is a methodology that focuses on testing an entire application’s workflow. We will not cover it in detail in this book, but we will give you an idea about it and cover some tools that we can use.
The goal is to simulate user scenarios and interactions with the application to make sure that all components work together correctly. E2E testing covers frontend, backend, and all interfaces or external dependencies of the software that is being tested. The E2E testing scope can also be cross-browser or cross-platform, where an application is tested using multiple different web browsers or mobile devices.
There are several tools available for end-to-end testing, such as:
- Cypress (https://www.cypress.io/): This is a tool that can be used to create E2E tests for web applications. Cypress tests are simple to write and read. You can see your application’s behavior during the test execution in the browser and it also...