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Rafael Quintanilha
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Feb 21, 2020 â‹… 6 min read

Semantic tests with react-testing-library

Rafael Quintanilha Rafael Quintanilha is a frontend engineer focused on developing intuitive and accessible interfaces with React. You can read Rafael's articles on rafaelquintanilha.com, a blog where he talks about technology, web development, mathematics, and whatever comes to his mind.

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One Reply to "Semantic tests with react-testing-library"

  1. Hi,
    Interesting article but I disagree on some aspects, here are 2 cents of mine to be added to the thinking …
    Each story needs to carry ‘acceptance criteria’ on which tests will be based.
    You don’t create your tests solely based on the story description “as a X I need to do Y so that I get Z”, and you don’t rely on the PM blindly deciding which tests are to be executed.
    How do you know 25 = 77 is representative of the test data you need to use to verify your converter result?
    What about 0, what about -1, what about 12.3 (or is it 12,3 that is accepted as valid input), what about 2.345,67 (or 2,345.67) ? How many decimals are required on the visual or during calculation? Do we use rounding or truncation?
    e.g. convert -17.77777 C to F : is that giving 1,4e-5°F as correct result ? or is it 1.399999998e-5 or 0.0000140000000001805 (sample taken from google search converter) ?
    Also you can’t skip implementation from your tests.
    Let’s imagine a developer detects numeric/alphabetic values in code by testing the keyboard key nrs, that is not good because not all keyboards have same layout and we want to test that (yes, I saw this being done by a developer)
    For ‘clear rules’, you’d maybe like to look at techniques such as equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis, decision tree …

    Philippe.

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