When we need to ensure a decent user experience we do not only test the designed flow, but also exceptional cases. We have to check that the application responds to problems gracefully. Let’s say we have a feedback form. The typical scenario would be: user submits the filled out form and gets notified when it’s done. But what if a problem happens on the server side? The application is supposed to warn the user. How do we test such cases? We cannot reproduce the issue until everything is fine with the server side. However, we can use page.mockRequest
to intercept submission request sent to the server and replace it with our own.