Frontend headless browser testing with CasperJS
A big cost area in testing is manual tests of the user interface. Therefore, a wide range of tools have been developed to automate running tests at the HTTP level. Selenium is a popular tool implemented in Java, for example. In the Node.js world, we have a few interesting choices. The chai-http plugin to Chai would let us interact at the HTTP level with the Notes application, while staying within the now-familiar Chai environment. ZombieJS is a popular tool that implements a simulated browser which we can direct to visit web pages and perform simulated clicks on simulated buttons, verifying application behavior by inspecting the resulting behavior.
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