It’s valid to say you’re e2e testing your system, just not e2e testing the “full system”. This is why the classification of the test into e2e, integration, and

It’s valid to say you’re e2e testing your system, just not e2e testing the “full system”. This is why the classification of the test into e2e, integration, and unit can cause confusion. I like to try to encourage people to avoid bucketing and instead say “this test should be more integration style than it currently is”, “this test should be more isolated than it currently is”. At the end of the day all testing mocks out the user and things like old web browsers or other factors that are a part of the real world system you care about may not be simulated in your test, so the way to get ”real” e2e verification is probably monitoring real users, if you consider that the user is a part of your “system”