[METRON-2256] Move NodeJS test module (puppeteer) to be Dev dependency

• Type: Improvement
• Status: To Do
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Assignee: Dale Richardson
• Reporter: Dale Richardson
• Created: 16/Sep/19 07:47
• Updated: 13/Nov/19 14:57

Description

Puppeteer is used to help script GUI testing in NodeJS.  Unfortunately every time it is installed locally (which is every build), it will download Chromium (80-120 MB download, 250+ MB on disk).  At the moment Puppeteer is installed as part of build process for the Metron-Alert and Metron-Config modules.  Ideally we should not incur this cost unless we are doing GUI testing.  Luckily Angular has the concept of a dev dependency, which is only installed when testing is required.

Issue Links

• is blocked by: METRON-2257 Metron-Alerts GUI testing failing on MacOS builds
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1511
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1517