End-to-End Test

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Like a real user, create an itinerary from the travel home page, save it, reopen it, and confirm the confirmation page shows that same trip.

An end-to-end test follows a complete system flow from a user's entry point to the final result.A browser can register, sign in, create a trip, and reach confirmation across pages, services, and data storage. This is evidence that the user journey works. Calling one API or checking one function is important but not end-to-end.

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Integration Test

E2E

How one trip booking goes from browser to confirmation

trip.local/hangzhou

Choose
Pay
Confirm

WEEKEND PICK

Two slow days in Hangzhou

West Lake · Longjing · Art Museum

One browser operates from the user entry to a confirmation number across the real page, API, and data path.

What end-to-end evidence proves

Start at the user entry point: The test clicks, types, navigates, and reaches a final page, giving repeatable evidence for the real critical path. It fits registration, pre-payment confirmation, and content creation.

Keep journeys few and representative: Full journeys are slower and depend more on environments, so cover essential success and high-risk failure paths first. Unit and integration tests still locate detailed rules faster.

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Which best proves the end-to-end path “a user can complete a booking”?

Fill and submit the itinerary in a browser, but only check whether the page navigates to confirmationIn a browser, enter an itinerary, submit it, reopen the confirmation page, and verify it shows the saved itineraryCreate the itinerary through the API, then check whether the matching record exists in the database

You can say this to an AI Agent

Add an E2E test for a trip booking: fill and save an itinerary in a browser, then reopen the confirmation page and verify that itinerary remains. After it passes, tell me which pages it visited and the final result it saw.

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