We’ve all heard unit testing is good, but how do you get started writing unit tests? In this episode of Front End Happy Hour we share our experiences and advice writing unit tests. We discuss why it’s important and beneficial to have unit tests in your JavaScript. We share how we’ve approached unit tests and what a good unit test looks like. We also talk about the various tools and frameworks available to get your code properly tested.

Items mentioned in the episode:

Selenium, Black-box testing, White-box testing, Ember guides, Mocha, Jasmine, QUnit, Tape, Jest, Webpack, 5 Questions Every Unit Test Must Answer, Ember CLI, React CLI, Karma, What is the difference between a test runner, testing framwork, assertion library, and a testing plugin?, Ember Guides introduction to Unit Testing

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers

Picks:

Ryan Burgess - Caffeine for Mac

Ryan Burgess - Odesza

Augustus Yuan - Google Doodles

Augustus Yuan - OSSU Computer Science curriculum

Augustus Yuan - Mura Masa - What If I Go?

Augustus Yuan - teamLab: Living Digital Space and Future Parks

Jem Young - Flume - the mixtape

Jem Young - Programming Sucks

Jem Young - Hype Machine

Derrick Showers - Google Calendar goals

Derrick Showers - $13 bluetooth headset