Anybody have automated testing guidelines?

[brianwisti]

Subject pretty much covers the thought I'm having.

Currently I use pytest with pytest-playwright for browser-level testing. I wondered if anybody has suggestions or preferred approaches for testing the components at a lower level than Full Browser.

[adamghill]

I've only played with playwright a little bit, but that seems like a reasonable approach for end-to-end browser testing. Would it be useful to provide any hooks or documentation for testing the component itself?

[brianwisti]

They would, but I'm having trouble imagining what these hooks would look like. Unicorn's not just a view fragment, right? There's AJAX and JSON right from the get-go.

Thinking out loud: if I wanted some pre-browser tests, I could make assertions that the models and objects I use in components translate cleanly to JSON. That seems to be the main surprise I bump into, especially around a couple m2m relations in my project. I'll have to ponder, and again I'm not sure where you could bake in a testing hook for that.

[GabeSoler]

Is there not a way of mocking Ajax /Jason messages with Django client?

I think it would be really important to have an official way of testing the unicorn views.