Which Unit Test Library could be applied into Kintone while developing ?

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Dear everyone,

 

Now i am learning Kintone for applied business workflow of my future customers.

I already learned :

  • Kintone REST API

  • Javascript API

  • Plugin (already applied existing plugin, create my own plugin, using library to auto package and upload to Kintone services immediately)

 

My question is :

  • How to apply Unit Test into my app ? Because i will create many applications, i am worry about when it’s not work in some minor cases.

If you already met situation in my questions, i am really appreciate for your help!

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How to apply the (Unit) Test into Kintone apps is common questions among kintone pioneer engineers in Japan recently, but they have not found best practices also…

I heard two trials as follows.

  • use Puppeteer

  • create & use stub

As they & you assume, wondering if these are best practices. I also think best practices have not found for now.

Let’s discuss & find the best together! Thanks.

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Thank you very much Mr. Yamashita.
Now i am investigating Cypress and it is really awesome. But i have a little trouble :

  • Is it possible to test directly into production environment ? It is my Kintone services environment. Does Kintone reject my automation testing ?

  • These automation testing framework always suggest testing on local environment only. Is it possible to run Kintone locally ? Or Kintone allow to spam test multi times in online Kintone services ?

I am still investigating, let’s share what experiences we have in here!

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It looks interesting! I’m not sure, but I think it may be available.

> Is it possible to test directly into production environment ? It is my Kintone services environment. Does Kintone reject my automation testing ?

What do you mean about “service environment”? What is the difference from the “production environment”? I guess every kintone environment is the same operating condition. make sense?

> These automation testing framework always suggest testing on local environment only. Is it possible to run Kintone locally ? Or Kintone allow to spam test multi times in online Kintone services ?

As you pointed, impossible to run Kintone locally.

 

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> What do you mean about “service environment”? What is the difference from the “production environment”? I guess every kintone environment is the same operating condition. make sense?

Yes, it is “service environment”. I’m sorry, it is my misunderstood. And i am a system engineer, so i trying to understand which is current development flow if i working with Kintone.

Thank you for your help!

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@Ryu Yamashita : Hi Yamashita,

Finally, i choose Cypress and apply to my project. A little bit disadvantages that i got :

  • Number of API call will lost while testing. Please be careful to running test a lot of time per day. Because you have to use these api frequently:

  + Login

  + Delete records

  + Add records

  • Test environment should setup separate with your develop, staging and production environment. Because it need change data while testing.