Testing · Senior · Question 53 of 75

Why should E2E tests prefer seeding state via API instead of the UI?

✓Correct answer: UI setup is slow and fails for reasons unrelated to the feature under test; only the tested part should go through the UI
2APIs are always faster to write
3The UI can't create data

Explanation

Playwright's request fixture and Cypress's cy.request make API setup easy.

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