Summary
In this chapter, you learned about which different types of testing we can automate and how important these types are for software projects to succeed. You’ve seen the popular tools that exist to help us cover our projects. By following the testing pyramid, you should be able to decide what tests you need to focus on to make your project as reliable as possible.
By using the power test frameworks such as Jest or Mocha or a flexible runner such as AVA, you can automate a lot of different things – from unit tests to full end-to-end tests. Dedicated end-to-end test frameworks such as Playwright or Cypress also come with their own runners – which makes sense for complex visual tests in particular. In the unit and integration testing space, Jest comes in handy. It also allows us to quickly integrate other flavors of JavaScript or customize a lot of different features.
In the next chapter, we will finally also publish our own packages – to the public...
