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Modern Web Testing with TestCafe

You're reading from   Modern Web Testing with TestCafe Get to grips with end-to-end web testing with TestCafe and JavaScript

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800200951
Length 168 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dmytro Shpakovskyi Dmytro Shpakovskyi
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Why TestCafe? 2. Chapter 2: Exploring TestCafe Under the Hood FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Setting Up the Environment 4. Chapter 4: Building a Test Suite with TestCafe 5. Chapter 5: Improving the Tests 6. Chapter 6: Refactoring with PageObjects 7. Chapter 7: Findings from TestCafe 8. Other Books You May Enjoy

Adding custom code execution to the test project

As we already learned from the Chapter 2, Exploring TestCafe Under the Hood, TestCafe lets you write code to be executed on the tested page; this way you can get web elements, URLs, and so on. Special kinds of functions are used to execute your code on the client side in the browser:

  • Selector: To obtain any DOM elements.
  • ClientFunction: To obtain any data from the client side.

These functions should be used in the same way as ordinary async functions, and you can use parameters to pass data inside such functions. The selector API provides methods and properties to select elements on the page and get their state.

To keep a proper structuring of the tests, it is recommended to group them by fixture. So, let's add a Redmine entities creation tests fixture and a Create a new project test to see how custom code execution works:

const { Selector, ClientFunction } = require('testcafe');const { stamp ...
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