I’m working on a feature where users can edit their comments and add giphy animations to them. I need to implement a test case that verifies this functionality works correctly.
Basically, when someone clicks the edit button on their comment, they should be able to search for and insert a giphy into their existing text. I want to make sure the editing process saves properly and displays the giphy correctly.
Has anyone implemented something similar? What would be the best approach to test this kind of interactive feature where users can modify comments and embed animated content?
Split this into separate test layers - don’t try testing everything at once.
Backend: test your comment update endpoint with mock giphy URLs. Make sure it handles malformed URLs and validates giphy data properly.
Frontend: I split this into unit tests for the edit component logic and integration tests for the full flow. Your edit component needs to handle state transitions cleanly - draft mode, saving state, error handling.
Testing the actual giphy embed rendering bit me hard. Different browsers handle animated gifs differently, especially mobile. I created a dedicated test that verifies the giphy iframe loads and displays correctly across different viewport sizes.
Test the undo functionality thoroughly. Users hit edit by mistake all the time, and if your giphy integration breaks the cancel button, you’ll definitely hear about it.
Giphy’s search autocomplete gets flaky under load, so mock those API calls in tests but also run real integration tests against their staging environment if available.
I’ve built comment editing with giphy features before. The state management during edits will trip you up - test what happens when someone starts editing, adds a giphy, then hits cancel. The original comment better stay untouched. Don’t forget edge cases like network timeouts during giphy search or when saving. The trickiest part? Making sure the preview matches what actually gets saved. Different giphy formats and sizes love to mess things up. Also test with long and short comments since giphys can wreck your text wrapping.
yea, for testing you should mock the giphy API first. then go through each step of the edit process to check if the comment updates with the gifs and whether saving maintains both the text and the gif. consider using selenium or cypress for the UI tests.