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API Mocking for your Playwright tests
When working with third party API's it is better to mock the API call rather than hit the API especially when they are API's that you do not control. Mocking the API allows you to finish developing your component or app and write the tests and then when the API is ready you can just swap out the mock for the real API call.
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- playwright
- testing
Playwright's UI Mode - watch mode and time travel debugging
Are you looking for a more efficient way to execute and debug your end to end tests? Look no further than Playwright's UI Mode. In this guide, we'll explore the features of Playwright's UI Mode and show you how to take advantage of them for your test automation needs.
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- playwright
- testing
A better global setup in Playwright reusing login with project dependencies
When you use global setup, you don't see a trace for the setup part of your tests and the setup doesn't appear in the HTML report. This can make debugging difficult. It's also not possible to use fixtures in global setup. In order to fix this issue, project dependencies were created.
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- playwright
- testing
Setup a local dev server for your Playwright tests
Playwright comes with a webserver option in the config file which gives you the ability to launch a local dev server before running your tests. This is ideal for when writing your tests during development and when you don't have a staging or production url to test against.
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- playwright
- testing
Testing Menus on Desktop and Mobile
We can write a simple test to make sure that when a user clicks on an item in the menu it takes them to the correct page. To test my website I use Playwright which I already have installed. Let's take a look at how to test the menu on desktop and mobile.
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- playwright
- testing
2022 Recap - Achieving your dreams Debbie
And there it is, another year gone but when you look back at all you have achieved then really there is no more to say than; what a year. From Google interviews to being hired by Microsoft, speaking at conferences and traveling to so many conferences and lots of sport, 2022 was a great year.
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- personal
How To Locate Elements in Playwright
In order to write end to end tests we need to first find elements on the webpage and then perform user actions on them. For example, find a link and click on it. But before we dive into how to use the test generator, first let's understand what a link element is and what exactly locators are.
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- playwright
- testing
How to locate elements in Playwright
How can we locate a link click on it in our e2e tests. In this article we will learn how to locate elements in Playwright using the test generator to generate your tets based on user actions or pick a locator by clicking on an element
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- testing
- playwright
Migrating from Nuxt 2 to Nuxt 3
My personal website was built many years ago and had collected quite a large amount of code as I used my site to play around and experiment new features of Nuxt. It took me ages to finally decide to migrate cause lets face it, we all hate migrations. But I finally did it and I'm so glad I did. I'm going to share with you the steps I took to migrate my site from Nuxt 2 to Nuxt 3.
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- nuxt
Challenging Yourself
Cycle all around the island of Mallorca for a total of 235km with an expected cycling time of 9.5 hours at a speed of 25km per hour. Just the thoughts of that is scary enough. Was I able for it? Had I trained enough for it? Probably not. But I was determined to give it a go.
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- personal
- motivation
Testing a Sites Color Mode with Playwright
My site has a color mode option to change from light theme to dark theme or sepia theme or use the system preference. So how can we write a test to make sure this all works?
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- testing
- playwright
Interviewing with the Big Tech Companies
When a recruiter from Meta, from America, had called me, it just opened my eyes to the possibility that maybe just maybe I was actually good enough to work for the big tech companies.
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- personal