Unified ui/ux and api testing of web applications

A computer-executed method for unified testing of User Interface (UI) components and server-side modules of a web-based service, comprising:

• a unified testing framework automatically performing one or more UI tests by interacting with a browser to test one or more UI components of a web page of the web-based service;
• and
• the unified testing framework automatically performing one or more application programming interface (API) tests on server-side modules of the web-based service by, for each particular API test of the one or more API tests:
• submitting API-calling code to the browser;
• wherein the API-calling code, when executed by the browser, causes:
• addition of a node, which corresponds to a unique identifier that identifies the particular API test, to a document object model (DOM) representing the web page;
• initiation of a call, through an API, to a server-side module of the web-based service;
• storage of information, associated with the call, in the node that corresponds to the unique identifier;
• submitting result-retrieving code to the browser;
• wherein the result-retrieving code, when executed by the browser, causes the information associated with the call to be retrieved, based on the unique identifier, from the node that corresponds to the unique identifier;
• and
• wherein the information retrieved from the node that corresponds to the unique identifier of a given API test enables a determination of whether the server-side module satisfies the given API test;
• wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.

One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause:

• a unified testing framework automatically causing performance of one or more authentication actions, at a client of a web-based service, to authenticate the unified testing framework with the web-based service;
• wherein performing the one or more authentication actions results in the client maintaining an authentication context for the web-based service for the unified testing framework;
• while the client maintains the authentication context for the web-based service for the unified testing framework:
• the unified testing framework automatically performing an application programming interface (API) test by:
• causing the client of the web-based service to send an API request to a server-side module of the web-based service;
• and
• causing the API request to be authenticated based on information from the authentication context;
• the unified testing framework automatically causing a record of results of the API test to be stored in a document object model (DOM) of a web page.

One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions which that, when executed by one or more processors, cause performance of unified testing of User Interface (UI) components and server-side modules of a web-based service, comprising:

• a unified testing framework automatically performing one or more UI tests by interacting with a browser to test one or more UI components of a web page of the web-based service;
• and
• the unified testing framework automatically performing one or more application programming interface (API) tests on server-side modules of the web-based service by, for each particular API test of the one or more API tests:
• submitting API-calling code to the browser;
• wherein the API-calling code, when executed by the browser, causes:
• addition of a node, which corresponds to a unique identifier that identifies the particular API test, to a document object model (DOM) representing the web page;
• initiation of a call, through an API, to a server-side module of the web-based service;
• storage of information, associated with the call, in the node that corresponds to the unique identifier;
• submitting result-retrieving code to the browser;
• wherein the result-retrieving code, when executed by the browser, causes the information associated with the call to be retrieved, based on the unique identifier, from the node that corresponds to the unique identifier;
• and
• wherein the information retrieved from the node that corresponds to the unique identifier of a given API test enables a determination of whether the server-side module satisfies the given API test.