Run the dashboard UI Test

[amarouane-ABDELHAK]

We need to implement automated UI tests for the dashboard using an automated testing framework. This will help ensure the stability and quality of the dashboard components. The purpose of this issue is to provide the first tests to validate the contents of the web application across different browsers and platforms.

Acceptance Criteria:

• Create test cases that cover different UI functionalities. These test cases should verify the content of the web application and simulate user interactions such as clicking buttons, inputting data, and verifying expected results.
• Write test scripts. These scripts will execute the test cases and interact with the web application's UI elements.
• The test can be used with CI/CD

[j08lue]

What kind of tests do you have in mind, @amarouane-ABDELHAK and @Caden-Helbling? Unit tests at code level or end-to-end testing with some automation tool (Cypress or so) - or something in-between?

We have had an external team look into UI testing strategies for VEDA UI a little while back. I am not sure how far they got, because we stopped that track quite early. @danielfdsilva, do you know whether any documentation exists from Qalified's strategizing?

Depending on the kind of tests, it should probably be discussed whether they should be part of this repo / code base, or live in their own project (at least to begin with). Please feel free to discuss that strategy with @danielfdsilva and the other veda-ui maintainers.

[amarouane-ABDELHAK]

What kind of tests do you have in mind, @amarouane-ABDELHAK and @Caden-Helbling? Unit tests at code level or end-to-end testing with some automation tool (Cypress or so) - or something in-between?

Perform an automated testing framework for functional and end-to-end testing of the dashboard and simulating the user interaction with the different UI components (buttons, links...)

We have had an external team look into UI testing strategies for VEDA UI a little while back. I am not sure how far they got, because we stopped that track quite early. @danielfdsilva, do you know whether any documentation exists from Qalified's strategizing?

I didn't know about this or any plan about using Qalified

Depending on the kind of tests, it should probably be discussed whether they should be part of this repo / code base, or live in their own project (at least to begin with). Please feel free to discuss that strategy with @danielfdsilva and the other veda-ui maintainers.

Sounds good

[Caden-Helbling]

Initial implementation here: https://github.com/Caden-Helbling/selenium-testing

[j08lue]

Happening here, it seems:

• Add ui testing US-GHG-Center/veda-config-ghg#51
• UI mutli browser test US-GHG-Center/veda-config-ghg#53
• add initial playwright suite US-GHG-Center/veda-config-ghg#250