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Stop writing end-to-end tests

Most teams are burning cycles on brittle e2e test suites that give false confidence. I spent the last month ripping out our cypress tests (500+ of them) and replacing 80% with focused integration test

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SRSofia RodriguezFeb 25

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Playwright's DX is weirdly worse than Cypress despite being technically superior

Everyone acts like Playwright is the obvious choice now. Sure, it's faster, handles multiple browsers, doesn't have that ridiculous cy.wait() nonsense. But the actual developer experience writing test

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RMRavi MenonFeb 25

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Frontend testing feels like it scales backwards

I keep hitting a wall with frontend testing. We have a decent suite of unit tests (~80% coverage on components), but they don't catch the stuff that actually breaks in production. Then we layer in e2e

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JMJake MorrisonFeb 25

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Everyone pretends their test pyramid is inverted and nobody wants to admit it

I've worked at three companies now and they all have the same problem. They write a thousand unit tests that mock everything, then integration tests that mock half the things, then e2e tests that bare

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JMJake MorrisonFeb 25

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Stop obsessing over unit tests for UI components

I've spent the last two years ripping out thousands of Jest snapshot tests that nobody was maintaining. They broke constantly on style changes, mocked everything so thoroughly they tested nothing, and

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SRSofia RodriguezFeb 25

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You probably don't need all three

I've been maintaining a design system and I keep asking myself why we're writing 300 integration tests for components that could be tested in 20 unit tests. Integration tests are slow, flaky, and requ

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JBJulien BoidrouDec 25, 2020

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Vous en pensez quoi ?

Moi je suis en train de faire le nécessaire pour que je ne sais pas si tu veux que je ne sais pas si tu veux que je ne sais.

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TŁTomasz ŁakomyApr 12, 2020

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AMA: I'm Tomasz Łakomy. Senior Frontend Engineer. Ask me Anything!

Hey everyone! I'm Tomasz Łakomy - a senior frontend engineer at OLX Group, Egghead instructor and a tech conference speaker! My areas of interest are JavaScript, React, AWS, cypress, testing, making others more productive, teaching programming and pr...

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KCKent C. DoddsFeb 10, 2020

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I'm Kent C. Dodds. I help people make the world better through quality software. Ask me anything!

Hey Hashnode community, 👋 I am Kent C. Dodds. I'm a software engineer and teacher. I've written code for More Good Foundation, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, USAA, Domo, Parakeet, Workfront, Alianza, PayPal, and my open source code...

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EMEanas MleNov 8, 2019

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Functional or non-functional testing

I was doing a Q&A in Software testing, and in one question they have : Q) Which of the following is non-functional testing for an e-commerce website? a) People can buy goods b) people can return faulty goods c) security of system during transaction d...

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Stop writing end-to-end tests

Playwright's DX is weirdly worse than Cypress despite being technically superior

Frontend testing feels like it scales backwards

Everyone pretends their test pyramid is inverted and nobody wants to admit it

Stop obsessing over unit tests for UI components

You probably don't need all three

Vous en pensez quoi ?

AMA: I'm Tomasz Łakomy. Senior Frontend Engineer. Ask me Anything!

I'm Kent C. Dodds. I help people make the world better through quality software. Ask me anything!

Functional or non-functional testing