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react testing reflect use cases web testing mobile testing visual testing api testing sap testing cross browser testing pricing documentation articles log in try for free use cases web testing mobile testing visual testing api testing sap testing cross browser testing pricing documentation articles log in try for free testing react apps with reflect create end to end tests that are easy to maintain get test coverage for complete user workflows fast to create great maintainable react apps testing is key while there are lots of great options for unit testing and component level testing options for doing end to end testing testing of entire workflows have been lacking as evidenced by a recent survey we conducted many react developers do this type of testing known as end to end testing manually the react ecosystem has great options for unit testing and component level testing but what about testing how those components interact with each other or going even further how do you test your application as a whole to make sure critical workflows are actually working as intended reflect is an end to end testing platform that makes creating end to end tests easy why is it so hard to set up automated end to end testing for react apps conventional end to end frameworks like selenium cypress and puppeeter share a number of shortcomings when it comes to testing react apps react s virtual dom can mess up element selection react uses a process called reconciliation to render changes within your app as virtual dom changes are synced with the real dom existing dom nodes get swapped out and replaced with new dom objects conventional end to end frameworks need to get a reference to a dom node in order to execute actions on the app however with frequent dom changes those references can easily get out of date causing your tests to fail for no good reason it s hard to find good stable selectors frameworks like styled components and emotionjs allow react developers to include css styling inside their components while this makes the codebase more tidy it makes end to end testing more difficult because semantically relevant identifiers like ids and human readable classes are no longer present in the dom instead auto generated class names are produced by the css in js framework which can change on every build consider the example react component below globalstyle container h2 my react app h2 header some text here header block text block 1 block boldblock text block 2 boldblock pulseblock text block 3 pulseblock footer acme inc footer container after styling from styled components is applied the resultant elements within the dom end up looking something like this div class sc bdvaja brhjoz h2 my react app h2 div class sc ehoje jjzmsv welcome div div class sc bwzfxh kndvzb text block 1 div div class sc bwzfxh jurzp text block 2 div div class sc bwzfxh sc htpnat dwfcpr text block 3 div div class sc bwzfxh sc ifakcx drujic acme inc div div to get stable selectors here developers are forced to add additional attributes so that end to end test frameworks can use them as selectors no support for visual testing think about the bugs you ve found in your app chances are that some of these bugs are purely visual problems things like modals being misplaced elements getting the wrong styling or elements on the page getting shifted or obscured conventional end to end frameworks don t allow you to find these bugs because they operate on dom elements and are unable to detect visual changes in your app a better approach to end to end testing with reflect reflect takes a fundamentally different approach compared to conventional end to end frameworks here s what we re doing differently to ensure reflect tests are easy to create and maintain no installation reflect is a no code testing platform that runs entirely on the web this means that there s nothing to install instead of downloading software and running it on your local machine you instead create tests by recording your actions in real time reflect automatically translates your actions into a repeatable test that you can run anytime and because everything is web based it s easy to hook up your tests to your ci cd tool and run them on every deploy best in class test recorder reflect records your actions via a virtual machine that we provision for you on demand because reflect has complete control of the testing environment we can do things that no other tool can such as detect and exactly replicate complex interactions like drag and drops hovers and file uploads for react apps our recorder is resilient to changes synced via the virtual dom which means no more flaky tests resilient selectors that target your underlying react components reflect is the only testing tool that can utilize the underlying react component names as selectors this is important because it means you no longer need to add special attributes so that your test automation has stable selectors by simply installing our open source webpack plugin you provide reflect with everything we need to extract the underlying component names for the elements you interact with over the course of a test and automatically generate selectors that use those component names our webpack plugin can be installed via the following steps install via npm npm install webpack react component name save dev add the plugin to your webpack config plugins new webpackreactcomponentnameplugin visual testing as a first class feature conventional end to end tools do not have visual testing capabilities built in meaning that users either have to forego visual testing entirely or rely on a third party plugin with reflect visual testing is a first class feature that is purpose built to help you detect true visual regressions without getting notified about innocuous changes outside the scope of your tests get started for free you can get started using reflect today and sign up for a free account and create your first test in minutes get 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