Contenxt: 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 El…

Maybe relevant: Hound — hound v1.1.1 I must try this kind of thing out sometime. :slightly_smiling_face:

There is Wallaby also… both Hound and Wallaby work well for automated E2E browser testing.

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…

Thanks @tme_317 and @ityonemo for your insight. I’m going to take a look at both wallaby and hound. Ideally I would like go with the library that sees to build out.

We tried both out and ended up going with Wallaby. The experimental chrome driver has been working out great for us!

# question I’m bring this post back to life to ask the following question. Is it possible to use Wallaby or Hound to test external sites, outside of ExUnit? ##Context: I want to build a Front End QA tooling that has a set of endpoints for me to utilize from another website. Essentially I want to u…

Yes, 100%. At work I replaced a python backend with elixir (I’m coming for the python frontend next) and tested that it worked by running a user story continuously using hound for one week in our staging/lab environment (against the python frontend). Discovered several errors, and since deploying …

As a protip, if you do this, BEAM supervised restarts are key and I found that I needed to System.cmd(“killall”, [“chromedriver”]) on each restart, because I found that chromedriver could become helplessly lost in the face of our high-latency python frontend that doesn’t handle conflicting state ver…

That’s awesome! Any chance @ityonemo you can provide me a resource you used to build the tester, or do you have an open source version of the tester? I’m trying to understand how to run hound or wallaby outside of testing :confused:

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BrightEyesDavid November 6, 2019, 1:46am 2

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I must try this kind of thing out sometime.