help-frontend

A frontend service which provides help pages including cookies, T&C's and privacy policy.

Run the application

To run the application execute

sbt run

and then access the application at

http://localhost:9240/help/cookies

Running unit tests

sbt test

Running accessibility tests

sbt a11y:test

The above tests are run via the sbt-accessibility-linter plugin. This plugin requires Node.js v12 or above to be installed locally.

Running the UI acceptance/integration tests

The UI and ZAP tests are based on the template at https://github.com/hmrc/platform-example-ui-journey-tests with some modifications to allow them to be run as part of the microservice repository.

To run the UI acceptance tests locally, you will need a copy of Chrome and the Chrome browser driver installed at /usr/local/bin/chromedriver

./run_acceptance_tests.sh

The Chrome driver is available at https://chromedriver.chromium.org/

Running ZAP scan locally

To run the ZAP scan, use the Docker helper supplied by dast-config-manager (https://github.com/hmrc/dast-config-manager#running-zap-locally)

Follow the following steps:

1. Clone the repo at: https://github.com/hmrc/dast-config-manager
2. Enable port forwarding: export ZAP_FORWARD_ENABLE="true"
3. Configure port forwarding: export ZAP_FORWARD_PORTS=6001
4. In the dast-config-manager directory, start the ZAP docker container: make local-zap-running
5. In the help-frontend directory, run the acceptance tests with ZAP proxying: sbt -Dbrowser=chrome -Dzap.proxy=true acceptance:test
6. In the dast-config-manager directory, stop the ZAP docker container: make local-zap-stop

Information about the local ZAP test output can be found at https://github.com/hmrc/dast-config-manager#running-zap-locally.

Scalafmt

We are using scalafmt to auto-format all Scala and SBT code. This is enforced in CI. We recommend configuring your IDE to auto-format on save. Alternatively, run the following command before opening a PR:

sbt scalafmtAll scalafmtSbt

License

This code is open source software licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.