Reading list #19 - Testing in react

Kent C Dodds

• Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration.

• Making your UI tests resilient to change

• The Testing Trophy and Testing Classifications

• How to know what to test

  • Kent C. Dodds - How to know what to test? (Youtube)

• No mocks allowed: A testing discussion with Kent C. Dodds

• Why integration tests are better than unit tests with Kent C. Dodds

• Effective snapshot testing : This one highlights issues like false negatives and the lack of clarity in test intention when relying on snapshots.

  Most developers, upon seeing a snapshot test fail, will sooner just nuke the snapshot and record a fresh passing one instead of agonizing over what broke it.

Perhaps my most practical takeaway from this one was snapshot diff - I can see how this could be a more useful way to make use of snapshot tests

Frontend masters

• Testing Course
• Enterprise UI development

Uncategorised list

• testing library docs
• Make sure to check #testing for a list of all the testing related stuff I’ve written. 🫡