Convert Flaky UI Tests to Blazing Fast API Tests

The is a short demo of converting a Selenium test to a Loadmill API test using the har-recorder package.

The har-recorder npm module is using the Chrome DevTools Protocol. (Controlled by chrome-remote-interface) to capture Fatch events from Chrome.

The converted test

The example test for converstion, is a small but flaky test which creates a random post on our demo Ghost blog.

How to run this?

• clone this repository with git clone https://github.com/loadmill/selenium-demo.git
• Install its dependencies by running npm install
• To run the example test by running npm test
• The network recording will be saved to create-blog-post.har in the root folder of the project.
• Login to Loadmill, and create a new API test suite.
• Upload the recording and run it as an API test.