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Mastering React Test-Driven Development

By : Daniel Irvine
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Mastering React Test-Driven Development

By: Daniel Irvine

Overview of this book

Many programmers are aware of TDD but struggle to apply it beyond basic examples. This book teaches how to build complex, real-world applications using Test-Driven Development (TDD). It takes a first principles approach to the TDD process using plain Jest and includes test-driving the integration of libraries including React Router, Redux, and Relay (GraphQL). Readers will practice systematic refactoring while building out their own test framework, gaining a deep understanding of TDD tools and techniques. They will learn how to test-drive features such as client- and server-side form validation, data filtering and searching, navigation and user workflow, undo/redo, animation, LocalStorage access, WebSocket communication, and querying GraphQL endpoints. The book covers refactoring codebases to use the React Router and Redux libraries. via TDD. Redux is explored in depth, with reducers, middleware, sagas, and connected React components. The book also covers acceptance testing using Cucumber and Puppeteer. The book is fully up to date with React 16.9 and has in-depth coverage of hooks and the ‘act’ test helper.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Section 1: First Principles of TDD
6
Section 2: Building a Single-Page Application
12
Section 3: Interactivity
16
Section 4: Acceptance Testing with BDD

Adding acceptance tests for a dialog box

The Git tag for this section is new-sharing-scenarios.

Let's start by taking a look at the new feature:

  1. Open the features/sharing.feature file and take a look at the first feature that you've been given. Read through the steps and try to understand what our product owner is describing. The test covers quite a lot of behavior – unlike our unit tests. That is to say, it tells a complete story, or use case:
Scenario: Presenter chooses to reset current state when sharing
Given the presenter navigated to the application page
And the presenter entered the following instructions at the prompt:
| forward 10 |
| right 90 |
And the presenter clicked the button 'startSharing'
When the presenter clicks the button 'reset'
And the observer navigates to the presenter's sharing link
Then the observer...