Find a way to do functional tests

[djaiss]

We use unit tests and some sort of functional tests, but these are extremely limited.

I've done some tests with Dusk but

• tests with Dusk are painfully slow
• they don't work with Homestead (or the installation process is horribly painful)

What can we use to do functional tests? I'd love to use Ghost Inspector which is a company I've always admired, but

• they are expensive and the project earns like nothing today
• adding tests could be done only by a few people (including me) and not people who submit PRs.

Functional testing is a necessity and not having them currently makes me super nervous.

[djaiss]

Perhaps Dusk is the answer after all. Even if I don't like its slowness. It doesn't work with Homestead, but it does work when your dev env is outside a VM (with Valet for instance).

An avenue to run Dusk on Travis https://laravel-news.com/laravel-dusk-continuous-integration

[erdmenchen]

What exactly are you missing from default Laravel http testing capabilities?

[asbiin]

I'm currently trying to run tests with an other test framework which uses selenium : lmc/steward.

[djaiss]

@erdmenchen it won't let me test the views that contain VueJS.

[erdmenchen]

What about this approach: https://nick-basile.com/blog/post/testing-a-vuejs-and-laravel-todo-app

The author uses PHPunit tests for Laravel side by side with the official vue-test-utils for your vue stuff...

And a key motivation was speed, too.

[djaiss]

@erdmenchen Wasn't aware of this. It's worth trying so we can stick with Laravel's built-in capabilities. Will test and report.

[erdmenchen]

Why close? Is the discussion over?

[asbiin]

Well, this was closed automatically when I've merged the PR, but the discussion is not really over, yep !

[asbiin]

The (merged) PR #892 activated tests with Dusk.

[djaiss]

So yes, we've migrated to Dusk outside a VM, we run it on Sauce Labs and for now, things are working. We should see if we encounter cases where Dusk is not appropriate again.

[asbiin]

Browser tests are running well now.

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