That’s not the only way of writing end-to-end tests in Rails. For example, you can use Cypress JS framework and IDE. The only reason stopping me from trying this approach is the lack of multiple sessions support, which is required for testing real-time applications (i.e., those with AnyCable 😉).

When you’re writing tests for a very specific feature, you should use your UI to test it. But when you’re testing another area of the system that relies on a state from a previous feature: do not use your UI to set up this state.