Background Email is a key component of most modern applications. It identifies users, let’s them sign-up and login, reset passwords and confirm their accounts. Email is important but, strangely, testing processes that rely on email end-to-end can be difficult.

Why? Many applications rely on email addresses in some way: for user sign-up, account verification, notifications, communication and more. In order to truly test these features end-to-end one needs access to real email addresses in code. …

Selenium is an integration test framework with C# bindings. We can use it with test email accounts to send and receive emails from code and tests. — If you write .NET applications you probably deal with email addresses at some point: for user sign-up, email newsletters, password resets and more. If you want to test this functionality end-to-end you need test email accounts. MailSlurp is a free API that lets you create email addresses in C# then…

How to send and receive emails in Cypress integration tests using Javascript and the free MailSlurp library. — What is Cypress Js? Cypress is an amazing end-to-end testing framework. It’s popular, bundles its own chrome browser and is easily extended. Here is a screenshot: Cypress lets you test many parts of a website or web application with a browser in an automated way. It’s like Selenium but a lot more user-friendly.

With MailSlurp you can receive form submissions directly to your email address — no server or Javascript required. Plus it’s free :) — Why? (it’s simple and free) These days HTML and the Jamstack can achieve a lot. But how do you process form submissions without a server? Well with MailSlurp you can get form submissions sent directly to your email address — file attachments included! 1. Create an HTML form

How to send and receive email in applications and tests using on-demand email accounts. — REST API and SDKs MailSlurp is an email API service for creating email addresses on demand from which you can send and receive email in code or online. It has a simple HTTP API plus official libraries in Javascript, Python, PHP, Java, Golang, Ruby, Objective C, and C# / DotNet. Email addresses on demand Create new private email…

Quickly graph and visualize your data with an open-source data platform. — What is Redash? Redash is an open-source data visualization tool used by companies as diverse as Soundcloud, Mozilla, and Waze. It allows developers and analyts to query data, graph results, and share insights with others. The best thing about Redash is that it is completely free to self-host (minus your own infrastructure costs).

How to create email addresses dynamically in code to test your app’s user sign-up, email confirmation, and password reset properly. — Background Email is a key component of most modern applications. It identifies users, let’s them sign-up and login, reset passwords and confirm their accounts. Email is important but, strangely, testing processes that rely on email end-to-end can be difficult. Email testing APIs

Use test email accounts with Cucumber and MailSlurp to fully test user sign-up, email confirmation, and more. — Cucumber meet MailSlurp Cucumber is an extremely popular behaviour driven test framework used by developers around the world. It started as a Ruby project but now supports many languages and use cases.