How can I make my TestCafe framework handle A/B experiments on web apps?

Question

I have built an automation framework for testing our web app that runs as after each new deploy to our staging environment, as a regression pack. Now the issue is the tests fail whenever there's a new experiment that touches that specific part of the tests, e.g., the home page validation tests fail if there is a new home page experiment. I'd like to know how I can make my tests robust enough to resolve the issue maybe by ignoring experiments altogether or always ensuring the page loads in the current non-experiment group?

I thought maybe a possible solution would be for the web team to write a new cookie than controls the experiments, and then just set that cookie in a hook prior to my tests? Would that work or is there maybe a better way?

Answer 1

The solution with the cookie that controls your A/B experiments will work well with TestCafe. TestCafe allows you to work with cookies using the ClientFunctions mechanism or Client Scripts.