Requirements

There are a variety of testing methods for electron. WebdriverIO is a supporting framework for testing browser based node.js applications, with support for headless testing. It supports the Mocha framework. This was the combination that we implemented successfully.

Bindings

The Fable community has already developed bindings for Mocha via Fable.Mocha.

However, there was some difficulty experienced when initially trying to get the tests running.

Whether this was because of the bindings, or user error, or something else, we are unaware.

However, we found it far easier to debug the test compiled output by creating our own lightweight bindings around Mocha.

note

There are no releases for the bindings for Mocha. They are quite trivial, and you can find them in the source code via tests/Tests.Common/Mocha.fs.

We have also made some ad-hoc bindings for the WebdriverIO protocols and methods for retrieving and interacting with elements. Again, they are quite trivial as it currently stands.

Despite the above, the Fable.Mocha Expect module works fantastically for our purposes.