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Simplify Testing with React Testing Library

By : Scottie Crump
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Simplify Testing with React Testing Library

By: Scottie Crump

Overview of this book

React Testing Library (RTL) is a lightweight and easy-to-use tool for testing the document object model (DOM) output of components. This book will show you how to use this modern, user-friendly tool to test React components, reducing the risk that your application will not work as expected in production. The book demonstrates code snippets that will allow you to implement RTL easily, helping you to understand the guiding principles of the DOM Testing Library to write tests from the perspective of the user. You'll explore the advantages of testing components from the perspective of individuals who will actually use your components, and use test-driven development (TDD) to drive the process of writing tests. As you advance, you'll discover how to add RTL to React projects, test components using the Context API, and also learn how to write user interface (UI) end-to-end tests using the popular Cypress library. Throughout this book, you’ll work with practical examples and useful explanations to be able to confidently create tests that don't break when changes are made. By the end of this React book, you will have learned all you need to be able to test React components confidently.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Chapter 7: End-to-End UI Testing with Cypress

In previous chapters, we learned how to test applications at the component level using React Testing Library. In this chapter, we will learn how to test applications at the system level by executing end-to-end testing using Cypress. End-to-end tests play an essential role in helping teams gain the confidence their applications will work as expected for end users in production. By including end-to-end tests in test strategies, teams can gain a lot of knowledge about how applications behave when all dependencies work together. Cypress is a modern, JavaScript end-to-end testing framework that can handle anything that runs in the browser, including applications built with popular frameworks such as React, Angular, and Vue. Cypress features allow teams to install, write, run, and debug tests within minutes.

In addition to system-level testing, it provides the ability to write unit and integration tests, making the framework great for developers...