World Without WebDriver? Automated Test Strategy for Modern Web Applications - Bart Szulc

Removing web driver out of the picture is a process somehow similar to peeling an onion. You keep revealing layers of responsibilities, integrations web driver tests cover indirectly, that need to replaced by some specialised tests. Looking at the onion as a whole, and not as a collection of layers bound to each other, is easy at first, and web driver tests help us keep blind to all the integrations taking place between the web browser, frontend, and backend of our applications. But over a long time costs us a lot. We pay in maintenance cost, in execution time, and troubleshooting of problems spotted by such tests. Separation of concerns always been a problem in frontend development, bud modern frameworks prove to get better at it. With a new wave of frontend frameworks, can we replace web driver tests with something else? I'm going to present to you an automated test strategy that does exactly that. Replaces web driver tests with specialised tests covering every single concern. Starting from testing backed and frontend communication with contract tests and mocking, and finishing with web browser and frontend integration, covered by component tests implemented with cypress running against light storybooks.