research-afternoon.md

Research topics

Unit vs integration testing vs end-to-end testing vs regression testing

• What is a unit test?
• What is an integration test?
• what is an end to end test?
• When would you use each kind of test?

Testing methodologies

• What are some popular testing frameworks?
• How and why are they different?
• What are some common testing methods - eg test.equal test.Ok
• What is the difference between equal and deepEqual
• Hints: QUnit, Jest, Tape

Test coverage

• What is test coverage?
• Why is test coverage useful?
• What are Istanbul and nyc?
• How would you use them to improve your testing?
• Use Istanbul/nyc to calculate your code coverage for the TDD workshop.
• Does 100% coverage mean you have tested everything correctly?