Best of Testing — May 2024
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Snyk·2y
10 modern Node.js runtime features to start using in 2024
Explore 10 modern Node.js runtime features to start using in 2024. Includes the Node.js test runner, native mocking, test coverage, watch mode, .env loader, import.meta support, native timers with promises, permissions model, and policy module.
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Community Picks·2y
How to Write Better Test Names
Tips for writing better test names: start with a verb, use subject-less third person, omit implied verbs, describe the intention not the implementation, and keep it short. Long test names may indicate that the test is doing too much and should be split into smaller tests.
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LogRocket·2y
Exploring Hurl, a command line alternative to Postman
Explore Hurl, a command line alternative to Postman, that allows developers to run and test HTTP requests directly from their command line. Hurl is open source, free to use, lightweight, portable, and supports various operating systems. It offers customization options and the ability to validate API responses. A comparison between Hurl and Postman reveals differences in pricing, usage, learning curve, complexity, and data privacy. Hurl can be used in CI/CD pipelines for automated testing. The post also covers a tutorial on using Hurl to test the Rick and Morty API and the Rick and Morty website using JSONPath and XPath asserts.
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Fermyon·2y
It Took Me 20+ Years To Learn This Lesson About Dev
Every line of code written is a line of code that needs to be supported. Coding should be approached as artisanship, avoiding the Not Invented Here Syndrome, reducing code complexity, and writing tests to minimize support needs in the future, while documenting and making code understandable for others.
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Waseem .NET Newsletter·2y
EP 59 : A Guide to Unit Testing Project Setup in .NET
This post provides a guide to setting up a unit testing project in .NET, including steps for creating the project, adding references, installing necessary NuGet packages, and writing the first unit test. It also introduces the concepts of the Fact Attribute in xUnit and mocking interfaces using NSubstitute.
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Milan Jovanović·2y
Vertical Slice Architecture: Structuring Vertical Slices
Vertical Slice Architecture organizes code by feature, improving cohesion and reducing complexity. Implementing VSA involves grouping code for each feature into a single slice. Validation plays a role in ensuring data integrity. Consider decomposing complex features, refactoring, and extracting shared logic when using VSA.
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David Heinemeier Hansson·2y
System tests have failed
System testing in Rails 5.1 is slow, brittle, and full of false negatives. While it aims to provide confidence in the system's functionality, it falls short in practice. Testing UI logic, especially involving JavaScript, is still best done through manual human tests rather than automation.
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The New Stack·2y
Stop Running Tests With Your CI/CD Tool
Implementing a consistent testing infrastructure for cloud native applications is challenging. Many CI/CD tools have limited support for testing and QA, resulting in issues with consistency, test execution environments, and scalability. Running tests outside of CI/CD pipelines is also difficult. Testkube is a test orchestration platform that addresses these challenges by providing consistent tooling support, execution environments, flexibility in test execution, scalability, and a single pane of glass for test results.
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Hacker News·2y
nucleuscloud/neosync: Open source data anonymization and synthetic data orchestration for developers. Create high fidelity synthetic data and sync it across your environments.
Neosync is an open-source tool that provides data anonymization, synthetic data generation, and data synchronization for better testing, debugging, and developer experience. It allows users to safely test code against production data, reproduce production bugs locally, fix broken staging environments, reduce compliance scope, and seed development databases with synthetic data.
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swizec.com·2y
Why you shouldn't use AI to write your tests
The post discusses the reasons why using AI to write tests may not be valuable. It explores the benefits of different types of tests, such as unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests. It also presents ideas for using AI in test writing, including fuzzing the app, translating acceptance criteria into tests, and letting AI generate code based on tests.
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AppSignal·2y
Cypress vs. Playwright for Node: A Head-to-Head Comparison
A comparison of the Cypress and Playwright frameworks for end-to-end testing and browser automation. The post explores their features, similarities, and differences, and provides guidance on choosing the appropriate framework for specific testing requirements.
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buxlabs/boxwood: Server side templating engine written in JavaScript
boxwood is a server-side templating engine written in JavaScript. It allows templates to be split into components, CSS to be hashed per component, and templates to import other dependencies. It is small, easy to start with, and good for SEO.
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KDnuggets·2y
Getting Started with PyTest: Effortlessly Write and Run Tests in Python
Learn about the PyTest module and how it simplifies writing and running test cases in Python. Discover the benefits of PyTest, including improved logging and test reports, automatic discovery of test cases, and the use of fixtures and parametrization. Follow step-by-step instructions to set up PyTest and write your first test case. Explore how to structure a Python project for testing and understand the output of PyTest. See how to use function parametrization to test multiple scenarios with ease.
