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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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Daniel Irvine Daniel Irvine
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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

Summary

Becoming a great practitioner of test-driven development takes a great deal of effort. It requires practice, experience, determination, and discipline.

Many people have tried TDD and failed. Some of them will conclude, erroneously, that TDD is broken. But it's not broken, and it's not even difficult – it just takes effort and patience to 'get right'.

But what is getting it right, anyway?

At the very beginning of this book I stated that this is a book about my dogma. There is a great deal of dogma around software development. Plenty of people believe that they know the right way to write code, and everyone else is wrong. This goes for testing, too: some people will have read this book and disagreed with much of what I've said, believing that these ideas just don't work.

Of course, all software development techniques are subjective. Everything...

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