Getting Started with E2E Tests for True CI/CD

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Compares Nightwatch and Cypress and selects TestCafe with an Electron plugin to run E2E across Chrome, Firefox, Safari, IE and mobile. Describes a CI design using self-hosted Mac/Windows/Linux runners where PRs trigger tests via client polling a server and results are posted back as PR comments, and uses Docker Compose to spin up isolated MySQL instances for each test. Notes tests take ~15 minutes, require ~30% of development time to maintain due to fragile UI selectors, but caught regressions during a backend rewrite and enabled safe frequent deploys.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 3:20Software testing overview
3. 8:11E2E tests overview
4. 10:30CI/CD and E2E tests
5. 15:40Choosing E2E testing tools
6. 20:26Building test infrastructure
7. 23:33Writing E2E test code
8. 28:42Running real-world tests
9. 31:53Refactoring tests
10. 33:43Backend performance
11. 35:51Challenges in E2E testing
12. 37:41Maintaining tests
13. 38:49E2E testing value

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