BDD testing of Meteor apps in 2021

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Hi there, I would like to ask you what is the best way to start using BDD tests with Selenium + Gharkin for an existing Meteor v1.8 package based architecture app?

I used to work with Meteor.js 5 years ago and currently I am on a project with Meteor again. I remember I have used in my previous project Xolvio’s solution for BDD. I think it was chimp or something like that.

So, is Xolvio Chimp still relevant? If yes, shoud I use chimpy, or chimp 2.0 ?
Or should I rather use a pure separate Selenium + Cucumber tests?

How do you BDD test your app today?

Thank you

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Chimpy (the original chimp) is still good for Meteor and should work. It hasn’t had any major new features/releases lately but it still works like it always did. I haven’t tried Chimp 2.0.

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Cypress, use cypress.

Even better use cypress-cucumber-preprocessor and write your features in gherkin cypress-cucumber-preprocessor - npm

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We are using cypress and happy with it. It’s working good with meteor. You should add some checks for sub ready and sometimes have click problems but can be solved quickly.
I can share our tests if you want.

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Yes. It will be ușefull.

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you can find my tests here

PS: check https://github.com/guncebektas/ritapos2-cypress-tests/blob/master/cypress/support/commands.js to see how you can detect when the subs are ready.

any contribution to the topic will be helpful @robertlowe @harry73

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We use cypress-wait-until in some async cases. cypress-wait-until - npm
It also really helps in test stability we found.

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thanks guys, for good replies. I will try to make my team use cypress.

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