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Testing Tools, Different Types of Testing: Component, End-To-End, and BDD Testing

Announcements

• Still no current homework - we focus on the momentum from your MVPs and move towards CI/CD!

• Finish up lab05 requirements: Your peer eval reports and response documents, Unit Testing

• lab06 will require you to go beyond unit testing:
• Implement at least one higher-level (Integration, Component, or BDD) test with a testing library of your choice over the next week!
• Second Peer Evaluation at CATME.org coming up next week. Fill out before Friday, 2pm to receive Lab05 credit!

More Info on Testing

• Slides for high-level overview and motivation: Testing for the Skeptical Developer

• Difference between component and unit testing

• Testing Coverage: code coverage vs. execution/path coverage vs. test coverage
• Code vs. execution/test coverage: a kid’s toy example by the Lead of SW Testing at eBay

• Code vs. test coverage

• Possible Testing Libraries:
  • Jest
  • Jasmine

  • Mocha (and Chai and Sinon)

  • Component Testing with Cypress
  • Component Testing with Storybook
  • BDD Acceptance Testing with cucumber.js, blog example
• Remember the overview articles:
  • Overview of Javascript Testing, PDF version
  • Python Testing Frameworks

Today: Work in Breakout Groups

• Standup
• Work on new features and on unit testing requirement and peer reports and responses for lab05. Discuss best testing frameworks/strategies based on what your team members found out!