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My current company’s ecommerce website is on Drupal 7. I am trying to find a way (excuse) to use Elixir more in my workplace. In order to achieve this, I was thinking of creating a front end testing tool using Elixir.
My Question:
- Has anyone here created a front end testing tool using Elixir which tests a website on a re-occuring bases?
- Is this a good idea? Should I abandon Elixir for front end testing and stick to something like cypress?
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BrightEyesDavid
Maybe relevant:
I must try this kind of thing out sometime.
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ityonemo
Hound works very well for this. I am currently deploying hound against a django bff that runs in front of a django backend and it was incredibly effective at demonstrating that the elixir replacement backend that I wrote is an effective substitute that doesn’t die after long term burn in testing.
I can’t compare it to anything else (it’s been ages since I used capybara) but I wrote a repeating test and having it be a supervised process in elixir meant I didn’t have to nail down all corner cases (also my tests called out other services like ssh to confirm side effects), if it crashed the tests would restart from a safe state
I tried wallaby, but there were simply a few things that couldn’t trigger as reliably as hound does, so I stuck with hound, even though it’s imperative syntax is less to my liking. I got used to it though.
benwilson512
We tried both out and ended up going with Wallaby. The experimental chrome driver has been working out great for us!
tme_317
There is Wallaby also… both Hound and Wallaby work well for automated E2E browser testing.
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sepow
Have you gotten anywhere with this? I’ve found myself in exactly your situation and would love to know if you figured out a great way to do it!