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Mastering React Test-Driven Development

You're reading from   Mastering React Test-Driven Development Build rock-solid, well-tested web apps with React, Redux and GraphQL

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789133417
Length 496 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: First Principles of TDD
2. First Steps with Test-Driven Development FREE CHAPTER 3. Test-driving Data Input with React 4. Exploring Test Doubles 5. Creating a User Interface 6. Section 2: Building a Single-Page Application
7. Humanizing Forms 8. Filtering and Searching Data 9. Test-driving React Router 10. Test-driving Redux 11. Test-driving GraphQL 12. Section 3: Interactivity
13. Building a Logo Interpreter 14. Adding Animation 15. Working with WebSockets 16. Section 4: Acceptance Testing with BDD
17. Writing Your First Acceptance Test 18. Adding Features Guided by Acceptance Tests 19. Understanding TDD in the Wider Testing Landscape 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Refactoring your work

The next step of the TDD cycle is to refactor your work. This step is often the hardest, because our natural impulse can be to get straight into the next feature. Chasing green, as I like to call it: building more and more functionality is much more exciting. Refactoring, however, is much more zen.

The rule "more haste; less speed" applies to coding, just as in many other areas of life. If you skip the refactoring phase, your code quality will deteriorate. If you develop a habit of skipping refactoring, your code base will soon become difficult to work with.

It takes a lot of personal discipline to consistently refactor, but you will reap the rewards of a code base that remains maintainable as it ages.

Right now, we have some repeated code between our two tests. Let's fix that.

Test code needs as much care and attention as production code....
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