2020-07-28 UI Testing Team Meeting Notes

• Karate has been adopted by some backend teams [Thunderjet] for cross-module tests. Is it worth considering as an E2E candidate? Folio PoC is available. 
• Zak will do a spike, hoping to leverage NightmareJS testing experience.

Review situation with Cypress:

• Mike Taylor has already implemented Cypress testing for ui-courses
• we still need to evaluate Cypress relative to the other options, and to our specific requirements
  • Aliaksei Chumakou to pursue this

Cover call with Frontside

• feedback page (PLEASE contribute if possible)
• help with old tests: Frontside is actively refactoring `@bigtest/mirage` out of old code
• help with organizing mocks 
  • can we get this into a central, shared repo? 
• spike for new big test, offered to pair up with Frontside resource.
  • knowing BigTest v2 is not complete, Folio would rather get hands dirty with a prototype than wait until gold-master release.
  • Frontside says BT2 and Cypress may usefully coexist
• Anyone watched video about new BigTest?  Would presentation from them would be helpful?

• testrail is not free, and we often hit 150-seat license cap, many occupied by testers
  • ... but it has some pretty nice Jira intergration features
  • maybe use account-per-team instead of per-person?
• do we actually need to worry about this now?