Comment by Mev-Rael on "How do you do automation testing for requesting browser permissions?"

CommentHow do you do automation testing for requesting browser permissions?

Mev-Rael

Executive Product Leader & Mentor for High-End Influencers and Brands @ mevrael.com

Feb 6, 2018

Why do you even need automate this? What is the purpose, what do you really need to test at the end? You can't test something what is not yours and if you want to automate testing of browser itself, then, well, you need to work on that browser itself, but even in that case, testing that browser is displaying popup message on screen would require much more complicated tests, maybe making screenshot from OS and comparing it.

You can check which platforms support which APIs online and in code you may just add if

if ("geolocation" in navigator) {
  /* geolocation is available */
} else {
  /* geolocation IS NOT available */
}

Sidhant Panda

Programmer

Feb 6, 2018

This is for an end to end testing, because the token generated after this step has to be given to the backend to send a push notification. I know we can keep browser permission to always allowed, just wanted to know if there was a way to automate this step and feed the details directly to our backend.

Backend has nothing to do with frontend. You can generate whatever AJAX requests you want from frontend as well. Want to update location and test it? Just send any coordinates yourself and test AJAX response, you can also generate test case for many locations and test each of them, for example, in one case server should return "Your country is not supported", whatever.

In backend you just have similar basic tests with different coordinates pre-defined and call function you want to test by passing parameters you need.

I am not aware of any way doing what you want. You may try reaching Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox teams and ask if they are doing something like that, however, as I said you would need to do so, probably, on OS level by making a screenshot , however you are going to waste a lot of time since it's not your job to automate testing of browser itself.

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