Test automation challenge

This project is part of the 'Test Automation Without the Headache' workshop. It contains a simple web application with some horribly bad automated tests, and allows workshop participants to explore some better ways of automating tests.

The application allows two types of access - administrators can create user accounts and items, but cannot purchase anything. Regular users cannot create any items or accounts, but they can put items into a shopping cart, check out and top-up their balance. The orders will fail if users do not have enough money in their account. (Note the code is intentionally buggy, to demonstrate the effects of good tests).

Prerequisites

NodeJS (at least 4.3)
A modern web browser (ideally Chrome)

Setting up

run npm install to get all the dependencies

Using the web app

Run npm start to start the web application on https://localhost:3000.
Sign in as the administrator, with the username admin and password admin.
Create some user accounts in the web site -- the password will always be the same as the username.
You can use the following test credit card numbers:

expected outcome	number
Insufficient funds	5555555555554444
Server is offline	4242424242424242
Payment successful	4000000000000077

Running tests

Run all the tests:

npm test

Run a subset of tests:

npm test -- filter='some part of the test name'

(note the space between -- and filter).

For example, to execute all the tests containing the phrase account balance in the name, use the following command line:

npm test -- filter='account balance'

Links for more information on the tools