Test-driven Development for the Modern Web Developer 💻
If you're walking the path to mastery in Test-Driven Development (TDD), you're bound to come across some exciting testing tools. When used correctly, these tools will simplify your workflow and boost your productivity.
Let's venture out together on this journey, and I'll show you some of my favorite testing tools. Our tool chest includes: Pest for Laravel, Cypress for end-to-end testing, Jest for JavaScript testing, and Mocha for Node.js. Ready? Let's dive right in! 🏊♂️🚀
1. Pest for Laravel
If you're a Laravel developer, Pest is a great testing framework to have in your arsenal. It aims to minimize the mental overhead of testing by providing you with a simple and intuitive syntax. 🧐
Let's start by installing Pest in your Laravel project:
composer require pestphp/pest --dev
With the command above, Pest will be added as a development dependency in your project.
Writing Pest tests is an absolute breeze. The readability of Pest tests is one of its greatest strengths. Here's an example of a Pest test:
it('can sum two numbers', function () {
$sum = 1 + 1;
expect($sum)->toBe(2);
});
As you can see, our test is checking whether the sum of two numbers is indeed what we expect it to be. Simple, isn't it?
Stay tuned for my next posts where we'll further unwrap the wonders of Cypress, Jest, and Mocha. Practice writing some tests in Pest, and let's redefine testing together! 🎉
Further Reading
Remember, technology evolves rapidly, and some of the links may get outdated. However, the principles and practices typically remain the same. Happy testing! 🎉
Next installment: "Adventures in End-to-End Testing with Cypress" 🚀
