Tag: Jest
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A demonstration of Mutation Testing
Test coverage is one of the simplest possible metrics to help gauge quality of testing, which makes it one that is often targeted with rules like “don’t commit any code with less than 80% coverage”. However, it is also an easy metric to manipulate, and doesn’t necessarily prove anything about the quality of the tests… Read more
Five highlights from AssertJS 2019
AssertJS, a conference specifically about testing in JavaScript, took place in Toronto last week. Interestingly, I’d say most of the talks were not specific to JS at all. Here are my top 5 highlights, in no particular order: 1. Tophatting From Adam Archer: “Tophatting” is the a word used at Shopify that refers to actually… Read more
The first Ministry of Testing meetup in Toronto
Last week I organized the first meetup in Toronto under the banner of the Ministry of Testing. There have been tester meetups in the city before, but they tended to be infrequent and or short-lived, with the event I was aware of almost a year ago. With Toronto as a fast growing tech hub, with… Read more
All your automated tests should fail
A crucial little caveat to my statement that automated tests aren’t automated if they don’t run automatically: All your automated tests should fail. … at least once, anyway. In the thick of implementing a new feature and coding up a bunch of tests for it, it’s easy to forget to run each one to make sure they’re… Read more
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