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Simplify Testing with React Testing Library

You're reading from   Simplify Testing with React Testing Library Create maintainable tests using RTL that do not break with changes

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800564459
Length 246 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Exploring React Testing Library 2. Chapter 2: Working with React Testing Library FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Testing Complex Components with React Testing Library 4. Chapter 4: Integration Testing and Third-Party Libraries in Your Application 5. Chapter 5: Refactoring Legacy Applications with React Testing Library 6. Chapter 6: Implementing Additional Tools and Plugins for Testing 7. Chapter 7: End-to-End UI Testing with Cypress 8. Answers 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Refactoring tests written with Enzyme

In the previous section, we learned how to update production dependencies and add component tests to legacy applications. In this section, we will learn how to replace existing legacy tests written in Enzyme with React Testing Library. Before React Testing Library was created, Enzyme was a popular library to test the UI of React components. Enzyme is a great tool, but the design of the API allows the implementation details of components to be tested, resulting in developers having to update test code frequently as they update their source code. We will replace legacy Enzyme tests with React Testing Library to resolve the problem of having to update tests that focus on implementation details continually.

We will use this approach to refactor legacy Enzyme tests to keep the current tests while installing and incrementally refactoring them with React Testing Library. Please refer to Chapter 2, Working with React Testing Library, for installation...

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