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  • Cypress browser testing leveraging React Testing Library

    Aug 19, 2021 Cypress React testing

    If you're writing unit tests for your React components these days, there's a good chance you're using React Testing Library. It supports user-focused testing with reliable selectors to find elements, such as the data-testid attribute or finding an element by role. Specific and reliable selectors are key to make sure …

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  • Verifying order of React elements with React Testing Library

    Apr 6, 2021 React testing

    Recently I was working on sorting rows in a table in React and I wanted to be able to verify the rows sorted into the correct order. The table shows flaky tests (that is, tests that intermittently fail) and is built with Material Table. Material Table conveniently supports sorting out of the box by clicking on the …

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  • Customizing Recharts graphs for React and testing them with Cypress

    Mar 14, 2021 React Recharts testing Cypress

    After I added the ability to collect and store code coverage stats in the Projektor test reporting tool, I wanted to also add a graph that showed the trend of code coverage over time. Then users could track their repo's code coverage to see if was increasing, decreasing, or staying the same. The Projektor UI is built …

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Craig Atkinson

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  • Five ways to be a force multiplier in software engineering
  • Stop lighting money on fire: Seven tips to improve developer productivity
  • Lessons learned from building an open-source side project
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  • Cypress browser testing leveraging React Testing Library
  • Code coverage stats - are they helpful?
  • Testing OpenTelemetry JVM instrumentation with Kotlin
  • First steps into observability with OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb, and Kotlin

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