Project Setup for Selenium
Learn how to set up Selenium in a React project, and understand the additional libraries that you will need.
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As mentioned before, integration tests require more setup. To implement them, we will use the Selenium framework. This is a tool to control the browser programmatically. We will still use Jest as a test runner and reporter but with a custom config. Firstly, you need to install the dependencies:
$ npm i -D selenium-webdriver chromedriver
selenium-webdriver
are the JS bindings for Selenium, and chromedriver
is the JS binding and a distribution of the Google Chrome browser driver. Once you have it installed, you need to create config files for jest
and babel
. Both are needed to enable ES6 Modules (import/export
statements) and Generator Runtime (async/await
statements). Create a file jest.config.js
in the project root:
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