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Svelte with Test-Driven Development

You're reading from   Svelte with Test-Driven Development Advance your skills and write effective automated tests with Vitest, Playwright, and Cucumber.js

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837638338
Length 250 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Learning the TDD Cycle
2. Chapter 1: Setting up for Testing FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Introducing the Red-Green-Refactor Workflow 4. Chapter 3: Loading Data into a Route 5. Chapter 4: Saving Form Data 6. Chapter 5: Validating Form Data 7. Chapter 6: Editing Form Data 8. Part 2: Refactoring Tests and Application Code
9. Chapter 7: Tidying up Test Suites 10. Chapter 8: Creating Matchers to Simplify Tests 11. Chapter 9: Extracting Logic Out of the Framework 12. Chapter 10: Test-Driving API Endpoints 13. Chapter 11: Replacing Behavior with a Side-By-Side Implementation 14. Chapter 12: Using Component Mocks to Clarify Tests 15. Chapter 13: Adding Cucumber Tests 16. Part 3: Testing SvelteKit Features
17. Chapter 14: Testing Authentication 18. Chapter 15: Test-Driving Svelte Stores 19. Chapter 16: Test-Driving Service Workers 20. Index 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Deciding an approach to make the end-to-end test pass

With that all said, how do we begin writing Vitest unit tests now that we have a Playwright test that defines what we want?

The Playwright test looks for the names Hercules and Athena. The test makes an assumption that these two people have their birthdays listed in the system and that the page at /birthdays lists them. But how do we get them into the system in the first place?

In true TDD style, we can defer this decision and simply hardcode these two birthdays in the system. After all, the test doesn’t seem to care about how the data gets into the system, only about how it is presented.

We can come back to how the birthdays are added later. In fact, we’ll do this in Chapter 8, Creating Matchers to Simplify Tests. We can also make use of our Birthday component from Chapter 2, Introducing the Red-Green-Refactor Workflow, to display each birthday in turn.

Therefore, what we need to do is the following:

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