End-to-end tests with Cypress allows us to quickly cover areas of our app. However, they require a fully operational frontend and backend, including the database. Cypress abstracts away the complexity of the asynchronous nature of single-page applications, making our tests nice and easy to write.
Unit tests can be written using xUnit in .NET and can be placed in a xUnit project, separate from the main app. xUnit test methods are decorated with the Fact attribute and we use the Assert class to carry out checks on the item that we are testing.
Unit tests can be written using Jest for React apps and are contained in files with test.ts or test.tsx extensions. Jest's expect function gives us many useful matcher functions, such as toBe, that we can use to make test assertions.
Unit tests often require dependencies to be mocked. Moq is a popular mocking tool in the .NET...
