Speaker reflects on the importance of testing, shares insights from the state of JS survey, and discusses future plans for JavaScript testing in 2025. Companies are exploring testing tools and methodologies based on surveys and personal data. Evolution of testing practices from browser to node-based environment with VTest adoption. Advancements in testing technology include VTest's role, Playwright for end-to-end testing, and comprehensive testing solutions. Progress in self-healing tests, AI integration, and tool resurgence like Storybook and MSW for API mocking. Diverse opinions on testing in 2025, with a focus on static analysis, VTest, and end-to-end testing resurgence to browser.

Hi, everyone. My name is Debbie O'Brien, Principal Technical PM at Microsoft. I'm focusing on Playwright, a reliable end-to-end testing tool for modern web apps. It works on any browser and platform, has powerful tooling, and tests run fast. Advanced techniques include UI mode, HTML reports, and trace viewer. Use annotations in Playwright to enhance reporting and test organization. Mocking API responses and external links is possible with Playwright. You can also test date and time by setting a fixed fake time. Playwright offers CLI test options and has a vibrant community. Join the Playwright Discord server and follow the important docs and YouTube channel for more information.

Today's discussion delves into testing in Deno, emphasizing its simplicity and built-in tooling. Deno offers a seamless testing experience for developers, allowing tests to be written in TypeScript without extensive setup. The platform supports BDD-style testing, provides various assertion types, advanced features like code coverage and snapshot testing, and allows for filtering tests based on keywords. Additionally, Deno facilitates component testing, dependency mocking, and migration of test suites from Jest to Deno with minimal changes.

At Evinced, the mission is to make the web more accessible for everyone. Accessibility issues are common despite intentions. Today's Talk focuses on coding in an accessible way using TDD to catch defects early. Unit tests can be written to ensure accessibility requirements are met. Testing Library provides utilities for testing accessibility. The ATDD approach allows continuous creation of tests for compliance. Unit testing is valuable for complex components. Advanced has developed an SDK called the Unit Tester for automating accessibility tests.

Hello, I'm grateful that you chose to watch my talk. Thank you. Last week, I had to run some unit tests while I was coding. Business performance can be awesome. It has very interesting and outstanding features. These test sets are overly complex. It's easy to find yourself troubleshooting for hours. VTest has almost 200 configuration options. By explaining how things work, we can answer questions about using complex third-party runners versus the built-in node.js runner. Understanding better helps avoid pitfalls, troubleshoot faster, and identify opportunities for configuring things better. The CLI layer does validation and hands over to the VTest class. It searches for test files, runs them efficiently using a pool of workers, and ensures isolation to prevent issues with dirty state. VTest uses the piscina library to facilitate work with multiple workers and improve performance. The workers prepare by setting the right globals, initializing snapshots, deciding the test runner file, and starting coverage collection. Each worker executes all the tests in a file and sends an RPC message when done. The decision to reuse or create a fresh worker is determined by the isolate configuration option. Consider spreading tests among more files to fully utilize the machine. Choose between process, thread, or VM as the worker type. In terms of isolation, you can choose between using a process, a thread, or a VM. Process is the heaviest in terms of performance cost, while thread is lighter. VM performance depends on known slower aspects like accessing globals. Process is the classic choice for stability, but thread has limitations and known issues. VM has reporting issues with memory leaks. Benchmark results showed that using multiple processes was 50% better for real-world applications, but for unit tests, one process was ten times faster. Thread was slightly faster than process, and VM was slower. The price of isolation with process worker types was approximately three minutes. Without isolation, the tests lasted only two minutes, much faster, but with a few failures. Threads showed similar results with a few failures. The risk of dealing with testing issues increases without isolation. By default, tests run sequentially inside workers, but you can configure them to run in parallel using the 'concurrent' keyword. However, tests still run sequentially despite specifying 'concurrent'. Concurrency in VTest is based on promises and requires asynchronous work. Unit tests run sequentially and concurrency has no isolation. Mocking in one test affects other tests running simultaneously. In choosing worker configurations, it depends on the context. In-file concurrency is best avoided, and the process worker type is recommended as the default. Isolation is crucial in integration tests but not mandatory in unit tests. Inside the worker, a TypeScript file is handled, and failures can occur when mocking functions. Mocking doesn't work in the worker. The worker handles TypeScript files and transpiles them using Vite server. Vite server replaces imports and hoists the mocking. Vite introduces a new module loader in the runtime. Vite hoisted the mock to the first line in the transform code to make it before the import. Additionally, Vite changes mocks to dynamic imports, ensuring that mocking works. Vite intercepts function calls on the file import level, but cannot intercept calls between functions in the same file. Moving function two to a different file or using an object export can solve this issue. Function one calls function two on the same object context. Use Spy to replace functions inside the object. Vite offers a range of plugins for different functionalities. You can fix import issues by customizing Vite's runtime. The Vite server handles dependency resolution and transformation. Consider using the built-in test runner or mockup for small-scale testing. Gain a better testing experience with Vite's customized runtime.

Introduction to Playwright as an end-to-end testing tool with easy installation and code generation. Features include visual comparisons, API testing, and best-in-class developer experience. Playwright offers AI capabilities, practical testing tools, and innovative testing strategies. Challenges in testing specialized domains are addressed, along with best practices for test dependencies and readability. Optimizing testing efficiency through parallelism, code organization, and network cache usage. The discussion also covers test performance enhancement, managing workers, optimizing dependencies, stability of test functions, and the use of Playwright sharding in CI/CD runs.

Hello, everyone. Today we are going to explore AI-powered end-to-end testing. Unlike unit tests, UI testing has a huge layer of obstructions between the source code and the rendered UI. The source code includes HTML, CSS, and TypeScript, which are transpiled into JavaScript and bundled with tools like Webpack. AI can generate tests effectively for standard websites or blogs, but it may struggle with niche applications behind strict authorization or on-premise tools. AI-powered end-to-end testing for complex scenarios requires our guidance. We use meaningful data test IDs and follow the page objects model pattern. Additionally, we rely on useful tools like the end-to-end test helper in-browser extension and the continue IDE extension. Now, let's proceed to the demo, where we will create tests for the Pokemon application, including the ability to filter by name or type. We will navigate to the Pokemon details page and use our extension to manage settings and prompts. Additionally, we will create the details page object together and generate the test file. The Pokemon details page has 105 elements. We can view the elements for debugging purposes, including page object name, Pokemon details page, and system message. We will copy the page object and save it to a file. We need to make it exportable. Then, we will use the extension to create an end-to-end test and pass the context. I will use all the open files, including the page objects and the test case itself. I will send them to EI along with the predefined prompt. There is a system message and additional information we need to be aware of. The test runs successfully, and that concludes this part.

Exploring the evolution of web forms from HTML2 to Web 3.0 and the crucial role of form validation in application development. The importance of form validation, challenges, and the need for better approaches. Introducing VEST as a flexible validation tool inspired by unit testing frameworks. Highlighting VEST's logic separation, asynchronous validation, and advanced features like caching. Discussing warning states, user guidance, and the impact of form validation on user experience and application success.