I’ve created a number of integration tests (using Jest) for my integration/app that require valid credentials for the tests to succeed.
What’s the recommend approach to perform the authentication? Maybe invoke the perfrom method of the authentication.js script in a before filter?
beforeAll(() => {
// TODO: get a new access token
// invoke authenticate.js?
});
Hey
Great question!
Yes, while I haven’t tried that personally, using appTester to invoke the authentication before the tests certainly sounds like a valid approach.
Alternatively, a less dynamic option might be to grab credentials, export them as environment variables, and import them into a mocked data bundle. You could also hardcode them into the mocked bundle, but we recommend utilizing environment variables. Here’s an example of this for reference:
One other option that comes to mind is to use Nock to mock requests. If you’re not testing the authentication directly and are looking to test how other parts handle a given response, Nock can help simulate a request, and you could likely exclude auth from the mocked request:
https://github.com/zapier/zapier-platform/blob/main/packages/cli/README.md#mocking-requests
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