Testing Email Activation in Sign-Up Flows: A Step-by-Step Guide

Functional testing isn’t something new. We all do it, less or more, with different tools and approaches. However when it comes to flows, where transactional emails (signup confirmations, password resets, purchase notifications and others) involved that may still bring questions. For example, we instruct the testing tool to navigate to the registration page, fill out the form and press the submit button. The web-application sends email with activation link. So we need the testing tool to read the email message, parse it and navigate the link.

In this article we examine testing user signup flow with confirmation by email with 3 different tools: Selenium WebDriver, Cypress and Puppetry.