Standalone test controller can be used outside testcafe

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Testcafe is a battery included automation framework, you can just npm install and start to write script and execute it without any other dependencies. But on the other hand, testcafe's core feature, TestController, can only be used with testcafe, which substantially limits its usage.

As an automation engineer, I hope that testcafe can be integrated with other test framework like jest, as what we can do with webdriver.io.

A possible way to implement this feature is to provide a TestControllerPool to manage the life cycle of test controller. An example to use it with jest (but also with other )would like this

import { createTestControllerPool } from 'testcafe';

// just declare which browser and how many of them to be used
// the number of browser should not less than max browsers used in single cases
const testControllerPool: TestControllerPool = createTestControllerPool(
  {
    browser: 'selenium:chrome',
    number: 4,
  },
);

beforeAll( async () => {
  // browsers will be opened and initialize from here
  await testControllerPool.init();
});

afterAll( async () => {
  // close browsers and release resource from this point
  await testControllerPool.destroy();
});

test('send messages to each other', async () => {
  // withBrowsers is a context manage (like with statement in python), which will checkout
  // 2 controllers from pool before enter the async closure
  // and it will wait automatically if not enough of browser can be used
  // and reset controllers and return to pool after exit the closure
  await testControllerPool.withBrowsers(2, async (t1: TestController, t2: TestController) => {
    // use t1 and t2 to control 2 browsers and do everything you want
  });
})

A lot of features in #3788 can get benefit from this design, like #2835
#912

[AndreyBelym]

Thank you for your inquiry. Your idea is great, but we already have a similar suggestion in our repository: #2501. Please use it to be notified about our progress with this feature.

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