This document describes the process of installing the dependencies for, running, and writing end-to-end tests for ionic core. Your working directory is assumed to be core.

Before you proceed, make sure you're running Node 7.6.0+:

node -v # Should be >= 7.6.0

And that you've installed all packages:

npm install

To run the end-to-end tests:

npm run e2e

To create an end-to-end test, you'll need to create a directory containing your test page and the tests themselves. Create a directory in your component's test directory. That directory should contain an index.html and an e2e.js file. So, if I were writing a test called basic for the button component:

button
└── test/
    └── basic/
        ├── e2e.js
        └── index.html

In your e2e.js file, you can group tests together using Mocha's describe function:

describe('button: basic', () => {
  // Write tests here.
});

To register a test, use the register method from scripts/e2e. The register function takes two arguments, a description and a callback. The callback is passed the test driver as its only argument. For async actions, simply return a Promise from your callback.

const { register } = require('../../../../../scripts/e2e');

describe('button: basic', () => {
  register('my test', driver => {
    // Use the driver here.
  });
});

The most basic, and most common, test simply navigates to your page to ensure it renders properly. For more complicated cases, you may need to extend the Page class provided by the e2e module.

To write a simple navigation test, you can use the navigate function from the e2e module:

const { register, navigate } = require('../../../../../scripts/e2e');

describe('button: basic', () => {
  register('navigates', navigate('http://localhost:3333/src/components/button/test/basic'));
});

For more complicated tests, you may need to extend the Page class:

const { register, Page } = require('../../../../scripts/e2e');;

class ButtonTestPage extends Page {
  constructor(driver) {
    super(driver, 'http://localhost:3333/src/components/button/test/basic');
  }

  someMethod() {
    // ...
  }
}

describe('button: basic', () => {
  register('some test', driver => {
    const page = new ButtonTestPage(driver);
    return page.someMethod();
  });
});

You can also take snapshots of each end-to-end test to check for visual regressions. You'll need to export the IONIC_SNAPSHOT_KEY environment variable to upload to the snapshot app. Ask someone from Ionic for the key.

Snapshot compares a base snapshot made on MacOS with a retina screen. (2560x1600) It does not work for Windows, Linux, or non-retina Macs.

To take snapshots:

npm run snapshot

To take snapshots of a specific folder:

npm run snapshot -- -f=toast

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