Accessibility E2E Tests
Note: Spartacus 2.x is no longer maintained. Please upgrade to the latest version.
Accessibility in Spartacus has its own set of end-to-end tests, which are located in projects/storefrontapp-e2e-cypress/cypress/integration/accessibility/tabbing-order.e2e-spec.ts
.
These include tests that require a user to be logged in (for the My Account pages and the cart, for example), as well as tests that do not require a user to be logged in (for the Home page and Login page, for example).
Currently, the tests cover tabbing through the application. For every new feature, a new test should be written manually that checks how the tabbing is intended to work. If some aspect of the tabbing does not work properly (for example, the tabbing order is not as intended, or an interactable element cannot be reached by tabbing), the test should fail.
To run a new test that you have added to tabbing-order.e2e-spec.ts
, choose the tabbing-order
test when you run Cypress.
Implementing a New A11y E2E Test
You can create a new a11y e2e test by updating the existing set of tests, as described in the following procedure.
-
Add a a new property to the config object in
projects/storefrontapp-e2e-cypress/cypress/helpers/accessibility/tabbing-order.config.ts
.The name should be short and descriptive. The following is an example:
login: [ { value: 'userId', type: TabbingOrderTypes.FORM_FIELD }, { value: 'password', type: TabbingOrderTypes.FORM_FIELD }, { value: 'Forgot password?', type: TabbingOrderTypes.LINK }, { value: 'Sign In', type: TabbingOrderTypes.BUTTON }, { value: 'Register', type: TabbingOrderTypes.BUTTON }, ]
The following are some details about the above example:
-
The
login
is of typeTabElement[]
. -
The
type
is aTabbingOrderTypes
enum, which supports many types of elements. You can see all the supported types by looking up the definition of theTabbingOrderTypes
enum in the Spartacus source code.
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Add a new helper file to
projects/storefrontapp-e2e-cypress/cypress/helpers/accessibility/tabbing-order/
.The following is an example of the
login.ts
helper file:import { verifyTabbingOrder } from '../tabbing-order'; import { fillLoginForm } from '../../auth-forms'; import { user } from '../../../sample-data/checkout-flow'; import { TabElement } from '../tabbing-order.model'; const containerSelector = '.LoginPageTemplate'; export function loginTabbingOrder( config: TabElement[], prefillForm: boolean = false ) { cy.visit('/login'); if (prefillForm) { const { email: username, password } = user; fillLoginForm({ username, password }); } verifyTabbingOrder(containerSelector, config); }
Some pages or views might require additional steps, and the helper file may be bigger or more complex than the example shown above. You can see other examples by looking at existing helper files in
projects/storefrontapp-e2e-cypress/cypress/helpers/accessibility/tabbing-order/
.The following are some details about the above example:
- With
const containerSelector
, you create a variable for holding your feature using a CSS-like selector. - Exported functions, such as the
loginTabbingOrder
function in this example, should always have theTabbingOrder
suffix, and should always takeconfig
as a parameter. cy.visit
is an example of Cyprus functionality. In this example, it tells Cyprus to access a page where your feature is located.- Your exported function should always use the predefined
verifyTabbingOrder(containerSelector, config)
function.
- With
-
In
projects/storefrontapp-e2e-cypress/cypress/integration/accessibility/tabbing-order.e2e-spec.ts
, import theTabbingOrder
function from the helper file you created in the previous step.The following is an example:
import { loginTabbingOrder } from '../../helpers/accessibility/tabbing-order/login';
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In the same file (
tabbing-order.e2e-spec.ts
), add the test.The following is an example:
context('Login page', () => { it('should allow to navigate with tab key (empty form)', () => { loginTabbingOrder(config.login); }); it('should allow to navigate with tab key (filled out form)', () => { loginTabbingOrder(config.login, true); }); });
The following are some details about the above example:
- The
context
should point to the page you want to test. - The string
'should allow to navigate with tab key'
is used in every test and should be included in all new tests. - The
loginTabbingOrder
is the function you created in yourlogin.ts
helper file, and(config.login)
refers to thelogin
property you added to the config object inprojects/storefrontapp-e2e-cypress/cypress/helpers/accessibility/tabbing-order.config.ts
(in step 1 of this procedure).
- The
Group Skipping
If your feature uses a unique route and also uses group skipping to improve the user experience on the keyboard, you need to implement a test configuration for this aspect of your feature.
The approach is similar to how you verify the tabbing order. In projects/storefrontapp-e2e-cypress/cypress/helpers/accessibility/group-skipping/group-skipping.config.ts
, you add the GroupSkippingPageConfig
to the relevant GroupSkippingConfig
, as shown in the following example:
export interface GroupSkippingPageConfig {
pageUrl: string;
expectedSkipperCount: number;
}
export interface GroupSkippingConfig {
[name: string]: GroupSkippingPageConfig;
}
export const groupSkippingConfigNotLoggedIn: GroupSkippingConfig = {
home: { pageUrl: '/', expectedSkipperCount: 3 },
login: { pageUrl: '/login', expectedSkipperCount: 3 },
register: { pageUrl: '/login/register', expectedSkipperCount: 3 },
/* ... */
};
The following are some details about the above example:
- The
pageUrl
is the route of the page where your feature is implemented. - The
expectedSkipperCount
is the number of skip links expected to be generated on the page.
Fixes
If your tests fail, create a new GitHub issue with details about the error, and use the feature/accessibility
label.