Clarify in the docs that shallow does call lifecycle methods in v3.

enzymejs · Dec 18, 2017 · d259849 · d259849
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diff --git a/docs/api/mount.md b/docs/api/mount.md
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 # Full Rendering API (`mount(...)`)
 
-Full DOM rendering is ideal for use cases where you have components that may interact with DOM APIs,
-or may require the full lifecycle in order to fully test the component (i.e., `componentDidMount`
-etc.)
+Full DOM rendering is ideal for use cases where you have components that may interact with DOM APIs or need to test components that are wrapped in higher order components.
 
 Full DOM rendering requires that a full DOM API be available at the global scope. This means that
 it must be run in an environment that at least “looks like” a browser environment. If you do not

diff --git a/docs/api/shallow.md b/docs/api/shallow.md
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 Shallow rendering is useful to constrain yourself to testing a component as a unit, and to ensure
 that your tests aren't indirectly asserting on behavior of child components.
 
+As of Enzyme v3, the `shallow` API does call React lifecycle methods such as `componentDidMount` and `componentDidUpdate`.
+
 ```jsx
 import { shallow } from 'enzyme';
 import sinon from 'sinon';