Testing testing 1 2 3 (JS Party #181)

This week we chat with Angie Jones about all things testing. We’ll cover unit testing, visual testing, end-to-end testing, and more!

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Featuring:

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• Emma Bostian – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Bluesky, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

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• Test Automation University
• Mocha
• Chai Assertion Library
• Which tests Should I Automate talk by Angie
• Selenium WebDriver
• Cypress
• React Testing Library
• Jest
• Enzyme
• Kent C. Dodds
• Atomic Habits
• JUnit
• Supertest
• Nock
• Cucumber
• do you want to start a youtube channel together called javascript

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