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ExTester: Your Essential UI Testing Companion for Visual Studio Code Extensions!
Seamlessly execute UI tests with Selenium WebDriver, ensuring robustness and reliability in your extension development journey. Simplify UI testing for your VS Code extensions and elevate the quality of your user interface effortlessly. Dive into efficient testing with ExTester today!
- ⬇️ Download a test instance of Visual Studio Code.
- ⬇️ Download the appropriate version of ChromeDriver.
- 📦 Pack and Install your extension into downloaded VS Code instance.
- 🚀 Launch the VS Code instance using Selenium WebDriver.
- 🔥 Run your tests.
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ExTester is aiming same support for NodeJS releases as Visual Studio Code and Selenium WebDriver have.
- For more info see Contributing to Visual Studio Code > Prerequisites and Selenium > selenium-webdriver > Node Support Policy.
Simply install our package into your extension devDependencies to get started:
npm install --save-dev vscode-extension-tester
Make sure to check out the 🔗 Documentation for detailed instructions.
- 📄 How to set up the tests
- 📄 Configuring Mocha
- 📄 An example simple test case
- 📄 Page objects API quick guide
For an example project, check out the Hello World Example repository, where you can find detailed setup and usage instructions.
Our full documentation is located in 🔗 GitHub Wiki. Included are details about Page Objects API and how to setup Mocha tests information.
Something is not working properly? In that case, feel free to 🔗 open feature requests, report bugs, etc.
If you'd like to help us get better, we appreciate it! Check out our 🔗 Contribution Guide on how to do that.
We have prepared few answers for most common problems community reported. See 🔗 Known Issues