ava-codeceptjs

Concurrent, opinionated UI Testing. Just ava, codeceptjs and chrome.

Install

Run

  npm i ava-codeceptjs --save-dev

Writing UI tests in Cucumber/Gherkin syntax feels clunky and is extremely hard to troubleshoot (BTW "Business People" don't care about UI tests anyway).
CodeceptJS' fluent and concise high-level API is perfrect for end-to-end testing
Page objects are a great way to organize your tests and they should just be "Plain Old Javascript Objects" (not like CodeceptJS)
Async/Await lets you write tests in a synchronous like style. No need for under-the-hood promise chain magic (like in CodeceptJS)
As a maintainer of an UI test suite I need concise error messages. Avas code excerpts are perfect for this.
Chrome headless is currently the most reliable option to run your tests. Phantomjs will no longer be maintained, Nightmarejs is flakey.

Run your UI tests concurrently and reduce total test execution time
Use ava's watch mode to automatically run affected tests on code changes
Uses async/await. No promise chain magic under the hood.
Uses ava's great assertion library, code excerpts, before/after hooks etc.
Use ava's snapshot feature to take an html snapshot of a part of the page and compare it to previous snapshots
Automatically wait for elements to become visible before clicking, filling input fields or validating assertions
Automatically make a screenshot when a test fails
Automatically take screenshots of assertions
Use "plain" Javascript objects as page objects and require them explicitly in your tests. No global configuration and dependency injection magic.
Get meaningful stacktraces even in page object functions