🧪Testing

Basics of Testing in React Apps.

What & Why?

What is testing? Why do we need tests.

Manual vs Automated Testing

Types of Automated Tests

There are 3 basic categories of automated tests:

1. Unit Tests

2. Integration Tests

3. End-to-end (e2e) Tests

Types of Automated Tests

Unit Tests

These are the most common and important type of tests. Unit tests are basically the ones that test the individual building blocks (functions, components) of the app in isolation.

A typical app contains dozens and hundreds of unit tests.

Integration Tests

Integration tests usually test the combination of multiple building blocks. Projects typically contain a couple of integration tests. These are also important, but the focus is more on unit tests.

E2E Tests

These automated tests test the complete scenarios in our app as the user would experience them. Projects typically contain a few end-to-end tests. These types of test are important, but can also be done manually (partially).

What & How to Test?

We'll be working with unit tests, so typically we will be testing the smallest building blocks of our code.

What & How to test our app.