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- Nov 2023
- Nov 2021
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www.varvet.com www.varvet.com
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I am firmly convinced that asserting on the state of the interface is in every way superior to asserting on the state of your model objects in a full-stack test.
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- Jun 2021
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evilmartians.com evilmartians.com
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Thus, by adding system tests, we increase the maintenance costs for development and CI environments and introduce potential points of failures or instability: due to the complex setup, flakiness is the most common problem with end-to-end testing. And most of this flakiness comes from communication with a browser.
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www.mutuallyhuman.com www.mutuallyhuman.com
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This is why for a recent Angular+Rails project we chose to use a testing stack from the backend technology’s ecosystem for e2e testing.
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When it came to testing the whole product, end-to-end, owning both sides gave us not only more options to consider, but also more tools to choose from.
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We used testing tools that were in the same ecosystem as our backend technology stack for primrily three reasons: We owned both ends of the stack Team experience Interacting with the database
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- answer the "why?"
- frontend vs. backend: owning both ends
- testing: stack: choosing
- software stack: choosing
- testing: stack
- key point
- determining if something is an appropriate application / best tool for the job
- explaining why
- using disparate technologies in a single project
- how to choose a dependency/library/framework
- rationale
- testing: end-to-end
- end-to-end testing
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www.mutuallyhuman.com www.mutuallyhuman.com
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For features like websocket interactions, a single full-stack smoke test is almost essential to confirm that things are going as planned, even if the individual parts of the interaction are also covered by unit tests.
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docs.gitlab.com docs.gitlab.com
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Black-box tests at the system level (aka end-to-end or QA tests)
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docs.gitlab.com docs.gitlab.com
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The most important guideline to give is the following: Write clean unit tests if there is actual value in testing a complex piece of logic in isolation to prevent it from breaking in the future Otherwise, try to write your specs as close to the user’s flow as possible
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- Nov 2019
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www.valentinog.com www.valentinog.com