Interactor.js

What is Interactor.js?

Interactor.js is a composable, immutable, asynchronous way to interact with components or applications like a user would.

Interactors work anywhere there is DOM, and run alongside your tests to produce blazingly fast results. They automatically wait for elements to exist in the DOM before interacting with them and also provide a simple interface for making asynchronous assertions against the DOM as well.

Interactors are meant to help write tests in a way a user interacts with your component or application. Instead of calling methods and expecting side effects, interactors work on the premise that a user will interact with your components or application and expect feedback from those interactions.

Getting Started

Interactor.js provides several common actions out of the box and makes it a breeze to define your own custom actions. Actions return interactors, which automatically run when using await. You can chain additional actions together to create more complex actions, and since interactors are lazy and immutable, you can save and reuse those complex actions throughout your tests.

Using Actions

The real power of interactors comes from the ability to define custom interactors and compose those custom interactors together using a page-object pattern. Custom interactors can be written for unit testing common components, and those interactors can then be used to build page interactors for acceptance testing applications.

Custom Interactors