What do you think are best practices for front end testing? On April 3, 2019, Adam Carmi, our CTO and Co-Founder, joined a panel discussed this topic on a This Dot Media webinar. The webinar title was “This.Javascript: State of Front End Testing.” Moderated by Tracy Lee of This Dot, the panel included:
- Guillermo Rauch – Founder & CEO, Zeit (@rauchg, @zeithq)
- Gleb Bahmutov – VP of Engineering, Cypress (@bahmutov, @cypress_io)
- Simen Bekkhus – Developer, Folio (@SBekkhus, @folio, @fbjest)
- Adam Carmi – Co-Founder and CTO, Applitools (@carmiadam, @applitools)
- Kevin Lamping – Developer, Test Automation (@klamping)
- Vikram Subramanian – Googler, Angular Universal (@vikerman)
- Tracy Lee – Founder, This Dot & RxJS Core Team (@ladyleet , @thisdotmedia)
The panel covered a broad range of test issues. Adam began his segment by zeroing in on a simple problem: how small changes can have huge impacts on front end behavior. Specifically, how can developers account for changes in their CSS?
It is probably safe to assume that any developers reading this article are already testing their applications. At the bare minimum, you’re testing the feature you’re working on as you develop it and checking that it works with any existing code. Many of you are probably using some form of automated functional testing as well. These types of testing are certainly important and they help to ensure that your applications work as expected, but adding visual testing into the mix will improve your testing significantly.
