Component Testing with Ely Lucas on Web Rush #210

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?

Direct link to the episode.

const podcast = { 
  episode: 210,
  title: 'Component Testing',
  topics: [ 
    'component', 'testing', 'end to end testing'
  ],
  guest: 'Ely Lucas'
  hosts: [
    'John Papa', 'Ward Bell'
  ]
};

Recording date: Nov 1, 2022

John Papa @John_Papa

Ward Bell @WardBell

Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin

Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Ely Lucas @ElyLucas

Brought to you by

• AG Grid

• IdeaBlade

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.