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Validating Embedded Editor Component Rendering in Carbon

This integration test suite validates the embedded Carbon editor functionality, ensuring proper component rendering and visibility restrictions. The tests verify the core embedding capabilities while maintaining security and interface constraints.

Test Coverage Overview

The test suite focuses on validating the embedded Carbon editor implementation, specifically verifying component visibility and access restrictions.

Key areas covered include:
  • Embedded editor rendering verification
  • Toolbar visibility restrictions
  • Container element presence validation
  • Component isolation testing

Implementation Analysis

The testing approach utilizes Cypress’s powerful DOM querying and assertion capabilities to validate the embedded editor’s structure. The implementation leverages Cypress’s visit and get commands to evaluate component rendering and visibility states.

Key patterns include:
  • Direct URL navigation testing
  • Element visibility assertions
  • Negative testing for restricted components
  • Selector-based component validation

Technical Details

Testing Infrastructure:
  • Cypress test runner for integration testing
  • Element visibility assertions using .should()
  • DOM traversal with .get() selectors
  • URL navigation via cy.visit()
  • CSS class-based component identification

Best Practices Demonstrated

The test suite exemplifies clean and efficient integration testing practices, focusing on specific component behavior validation.

Notable practices include:
  • Isolated component testing
  • Clear test case organization
  • Explicit visibility assertions
  • Focused test scope
  • Efficient selector usage

carbon-app/carbon

cypress/integration/embed.spec.js

            
/* global cy */
describe('Embed', () => {
  it('Should render the Carbon editor but no toolbar', () => {
    cy.visit('/embed')

    cy.get('.export-container').should('be.visible')
    cy.get('.export-menu-container').should('not.exist')
  })
})