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As we all know testing is an important part of any application. To assist with our testing we are going to use both Cypress and Jest. We feel these tools complement each other and will help us get good coverage of our code. We will use Cypress for our end to end testing as we've found it quite user friendly. Jest will be used for our unit tests because we've seen how many larger companies use it with great success.

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Postman will be used to do integration testing with the backend API we create. It offers a clean interface to create many requests, and you can even organize these requests into collections. It helps to test the backend API first to make sure it's working before using it in the front-end. Jest can also be used for testing and is already embedded into React. Not only does it offer unit testing support in javascript, it can also do snapshot testing for the front-end to make sure components are rendering correctly. Enzyme is complementary to Jest and offers more functions such as shallow rendering. UnitTest will be used for Python testing as it is simple, has a lot of functionality and already built in with python. Sentry will be used for keeping track of errors as it is also easily integratable with Heroku because they offer it as an add-on. LogDNA will be used for tracking logs which are not errors and is also a Heroku add-on. Its good to have a separate service to record logs, monitor, track and even fix errors in real-time so our application can run more smoothly.

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Pros of Jest
Pros of react-testing-library
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    Open source
  • 31
    Mock by default makes testing much simpler
  • 23
    Testing React Native Apps
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    Parallel test running
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    Fast
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    Bundled with JSDOM to enable DOM testing
  • 8
    Mock by default screws up your classes, breaking tests
  • 7
    Out of the box code coverage
  • 6
    Promise support
  • 6
    One stop shop for unit testing
  • 3
    Great documentation
  • 2
    Assert Library Included
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    Built in watch option with interactive filtering menu
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    Preset support
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    Karma
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    Can be used for BDD
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    We can test behavior
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    Good documentation

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Cons of Jest
Cons of react-testing-library
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    Ambiguous configuration
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    Difficult
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    Documentation
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    Many bugs still not fixed months/years after reporting
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    Multiple error messages for same error
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    Difficult to run single test/describe/file
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    Ambiguous
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    Bugged
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    Slow
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    Reporter is too general
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    BeforeAll timing out makes all passing tests fail
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    Unstable
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    Bad docs
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    Still does't support .mjs files natively
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    Can't fail beforeAll to abort tests
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    Interaction with watch mode on terminal
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    What is Jest?

    Jest provides you with multiple layers on top of Jasmine.

    What is react-testing-library?

    It is a simple and complete React DOM testing utility that encourage good testing practices. It provides light utility functions on top of react-dom and react-dom/test-utils, in a way that encourages better testing practices.

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