Episode 210: Component Testing with Ely Lucas
Ely Lucas talks with us about how component testing works with Cypress, what's easier and what's still difficult to test, security in testing, and why don't we want to test our code?
Recording date: Nov 1, 2022
John Papa @John_Papa
Ward Bell @WardBell
Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin
Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker
Ely Lucas @ElyLucas
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Resources:
- React with PWA and Ionic with ELy Lucas on Web Rush episode 69
- Cypress
- Component Test, by Martin Fowler
- Writing your first component test
- Angular component test harnesses
- Cy.mount
- React and Cypress
- Testing React components
- Cypress and Svelte
- Angular and Cypress
- Vue and Cypress
- Cypress vs Selenium
- Waiting and Retry in Cypress
- Intercepting http requests with Cypress
- Vuori
- Blockbuster on Netflix
Timejumps
- 00:51 Candy hangovers
- 02:40 Guest introduction
- 04:12 What is component testing?
- 07:30 How do you test complicated components?
- 10:03 Sponsor: Ag Grid
- 11:04 Calcuate taxes example
- 16:39 What's your background with testing?
- 20:45 Sponsor: IdeaBlade
- 21:48 Why don't we want to test?
- 24:55 What's easy and what's still difficult?
- 27:57 What code am I handing over to Cypress?
- 35:27 Cypress 11 availability
- 36:13 Final thoughts
Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.