Testing Playground

Testing Playground

Simple and complete DOM testing playground that encourage good testing practices.

What is Testing Playground?
Testing Playground is a Chrome extension designed to simplify DOM testing. It integrates with your Chrome Developer Tools, providing two new tabs that help inspect element hierarchies and offer suggestions for selecting them. The extension promotes better testing practices by giving feedback on the performance of queries. Once an element is selected on the page, the 'Testing Playground' tab will auto-select it, displaying potential queries for your tests.
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By: stephan
Users: 40,000+
Rating: 4.61 (51)
Version: 1.16.3 (Last updated: 2021-05-31)
Creation date: 2020-06-23
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • clipboardWrite
Size: 661.50K
URLs: Website
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Summary

Adds Testing-Playground to the Chrome Developer Tools.

Testing Playground is an extension that helps you find the best queries to select elements for the open-source Testing-Library family. It allows you to inspect the element hierarchies in the Chrome Developer Tools, and provides you with suggestions on how to select them, while encouraging good testing practices.

You will get two new tabs in your Chrome DevTools: "🐸 Testing Playground" as a tab, and as a side panel under the "Elements" tab.

By selecting one of the elements on the page, you can inspect the different queries that can be used to select the element in your tests, and get feedback that tells you when and why there are better queries available.

If you inspect an element on the page using the regular Elements tab, then switch over to the Testing Playground tab, that element will be automatically selected.

User reviews
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Pros
  • Element selection is very good and can speed up work
  • Useful for beginners
  • Speeds up testing
Cons
  • Does not work on some sites (e.g. Miro, coda.io)
  • No documentation on how to use it
  • Impacts functionality of some sites
Most mentioned
  • Element selection
  • Does not work on some sites (e.g. Miro, coda.io)
  • Useful for beginners
  • Speeds up testing
Recent reviews
Stopped working suddenly and hasn't been updated in years
by Rachel Yordán Rachel Yordán, 2024-04-04

by Nhat Nguyen Minh Nhat Nguyen Minh, 2024-03-06

by Lingaraju E V Lingaraju E V, 2024-02-14
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Safety
Risk impact

Testing Playground may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing.

Risk likelihood

Testing Playground has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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