Wes and Scott talk all about testing!

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Show Notes

3:00

• Testing Talk
• Is testing scary?

8:00

• Unit Testing
• Pure Functions
• Mutations
• Pass in dates to functions

11:40

• Integration Testing
• Integration Testing Mémé

14:00

• Visual Regression Testing

17:00

• End to End Testing

21:00

• Why would you want to test?
• Confidence
• Easy Refactoring
• Finding edge cases

33:00

• Test Runners vs Assertion Libraries
• Jest
• Mocha
• Cucumber
• BBD (Big Black Dog)
• BDD (Behaviour Driven Development)
• Cypress.io
• Enzyme
• React Testing Library

50:00

• Mocking
• Spy Functions

54:00

• Snapshot Testing
• Jest Snapshot Testing

57:00

• TDD (Test Driven Development)
• BDD (Behaviour Driven Development)
• Continuous Integration
• Travis CI

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