Re:A development process to ship features fast
by abracadabra_ on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @04:44AM
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I appreciate your position but I could not disagree with you more. React and other frameworks allow for components to be unit tested very easily, with good control over the inputs. This gives confidence in each component which can then be added to with a (very small) set of end to end tests.
I would also state that "10 likes of looking up elements by ID and running .click()" is a big part of why e2e tests are flaky and hard to maintain. Good e2e tests require good engineering.
Re:A development process to ship features fast
by SkyPuncher on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @10:55AM
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> This catches issues all the time where the api response or something has changed unexpectedly and the UI gets stuck half way on an error.
We've found that Typescript and a bit of boilerplate has almost entirely eliminated these types of concerns for us.
What _does_ work is front end integration tests with cypress/selenium. You just write some basic tests that click through the flows and see you got to the end. This catches issues all the time where the api response or something has changed unexpectedly and the UI gets stuck half way on an error.
It’s also super simple, it’s 10 likes of looking up elements by ID and running .click(). They hardly ever break from normal UI changes and prove that the app is mostly working as intended.
Switching to TypeScript is also a big one. It’s almost like half a test system given to you for free.