Enter the User Interface Test
User interface tests (or UI tests) are scripts that test your application in the same way an end user would. They click, tap, select, log in, and do things you or I would, which is why they are so handy.
What makes UI tests nice is that they slice through all the layers of the application and go end-to-end. End-to-end means exercising all the different parts of the application—the user interface, the underlying services, all the way to the database. This is what makes UI tests so good at testing connectivity, which is why we often use them as high-level smoke tests.
Smoke tests are super high-level tests that verify ...
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