The Geeky Gecko
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During my career, every time my team has to rely on a 3rd-party API, there comes the day where that API fails. Maybe it is down but usually they released a breaking change that breaks the previous contract. Our team does not notice it, but the client/user does and then we look bad.
Usually when configuring a GitLab pipeline (.gitlab-ci.yml) you only care about steps in your own pipeline. Sometimes however, you may want to trigger other pipelines (of other repositories) as a step of your own pipeline.
My team decided to build a Docker image that contained Cypress, dependencies and all our end-to-end (E2E) tests.
I use Selenium to write most of my automated checks, and the PageObjects pattern is a must. My current team is using Cypress and, to my surprise, this test framework recommends AppActions instead of PageObjects. So I decided to benchmark both patterns using the following criteria:
