Testing

Necessary & Sufficient

How do you know your code is tested enough? How do you avoid tests that don't add value? Jim Weirich created a heuristic that can answer these!

Publish Date: February 25, 2020
Authors: Justin Searls
Categories: Testing

A first look at GitHub Actions

A walkthrough of a typical Node.js CI workflow using GitHub Actions, migrated from Travis CI.

Publish Date: November 21, 2019
Authors: Jason Karns
Categories: Development; Devops; Testing

Please don't mock me

Publish Date: March 6, 2018
Authors: Justin Searls
Categories: Testing

testdouble.js 2.0

The best mocking library for JavaScript testing has just gotten a whole lot better with today’s release of testdouble.js 2.0. This release irons out a few public API quirks found in the 1.

Publish Date: March 13, 2017
Authors: Justin Searls
Categories: JavaScript; Testing

Test organization with contexts

When testing we group common behavior and ideas. We can extend this further by using test contexts around the natural shared contexts of a subject under test.

Publish Date: February 17, 2017
Authors: Sam Jones
Categories: Testing

Happier TDD with testdouble.js

Publish Date: June 5, 2016
Authors: Justin Searls
Categories: JavaScript; Testing

I hate “X upstart vs. Y incumbent” technology posts. They’re reductive, provocative, and they cherry pick contexts favorable to the Shiny New Thing™ over the older, broader standard-bearer. So, if you’re happy using Sinon.