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Wes Bos

Wes Bos

XL5G3 Full Stack JavaScript Developer. Creator of really good web development courses. BBQ enthusiast.

Scott Tolinski

Scott Tolinski

Web Developer, NX2V1, Creator of Level Up Tuts, Bboy, Robotops Crew and Youtuber

Playing: 040: The Testing Show

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Apr 4th, 2018

The Testing Show

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Wes and Scott talk all about testing!

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Show Notes

3:00

  • Testing Talk
  • Is testing scary?

8:00

  • Unit Testing
  • Pure Functions
  • Mutations
  • Pass in dates to functions

11:40

14:00

  • Visual Regression Testing

17:00

  • End to End Testing

21:00

  • Why would you want to test?
  • Confidence
  • Easy Refactoring
  • Finding edge cases

33:00

50:00

  • Mocking
  • Spy Functions

54:00

57:00

  • TDD (Test Driven Development)
  • BDD (Behaviour Driven Development)
  • Continuous Integration
  • Travis CI

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