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Episode 49: Are Your Tests Developer Friendly? - Amir Rustamzadeh

Episode Summary

Amir Rustamzadeh talks with John Papa about the difference between unit, integration, and end to end tests, the value of testing, and where to get started with Cypress.

Episode Notes

Recording date: 2019-08-08

John Papa @John_Papa

Ward Bell @WardBell

Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin

Amir Rustamzadeh @AmirRustam

Resources:

• Cypress
• Why is end to end testing important for your team
• Difference between end to end, unit, and integration tests
• Cypress github issue regarding uint test support
• Mocha testing
• Jest testing
• Cypress Config
• Selenium
• Cypress and Selenium and WebDriver
• Snapshot testing
• Blog post on snapshot testing
• Visual Testing
• Parallelization
• Circle CI
• Azure DevOps

Timejumps

• 02:11 What's the difference between unit, integration, and end to end tests?
• 06:54 Should I end to end test unhappy paths?
• 10:00 Sponsor: DevIntersection
• 11:08 Is there value in end to end tests?
• 16:30 How do we make these developer friendly?
• 18:18 What is Sellanium
• 28:01 What is snapshot testing?
• 35:25 Sponsor: IdeaBlade
• 36:34 John's use for Cypress
• 38:52 Getting frustrated by testing
• 47:57 Where to start with Cypress