Modern Testing Workshop

  • packages to install
pnpm i -D @playwright/test @testing-library/dom @testing-library/jest-dom @testing-library/react @testing-library/react-hooks @testing-library/user-event @types/jest @types/testing-library__jest-dom @vitest/coverage-c8 @vitest/coverage-istanbul @vitest/ui jsdom msw vitest

Tech tools

$ pnpm install
$ pnpm start

E2e testing

$ npx playwright install
$ pnpm test:e2e

The React app, and the fake web service will run concurrently.

screenshot

Set up React Testing Library and Vitest

  • create ./src/test-utils/testing-library-util.tsx that will be a copy of the root component

Set up MSW for mocking API calls

  • pnpm i -D msw
  • the msw is a mocking library which will intercept the requests and responses in the integration tests
  • create ./src/mocks/handler/todoHandler.ts
  • create ./src/mocks/handler/index.ts
  • create ./src/mocks/server.ts
  • update the ./src/setupTests.ts

Integration tests

  • write integration tests for the fetch todos function of WorkTodosPage.tsx by creating ./src/pages/tests/WorkTodosPage.test.ts
  • run the tests, pnpm run test, and see if the todos are rendered

TanStack Query persist cache between tests

  • the beforeEach does not work
beforeEach(() => {
  queryClient.clear();
});

Writing tests

  • install dependencies
  • update the package.json by adding unit tests scripts runner
  • write test for the helpers/compute.ts
  • run test
  • update vite config
  • write mocks
  • write test for the pages/
  • run test using different scripts
  • add playwright config
  • update the package.json by adding e2e tests scripts runner
  • write tests in e2e folder for home page and heroes
  • run tests
  • show playwright code gen for adding new villain
  • run test