Electron: From Beginner to Pro: Learn to Build Cross Platform Desktop Applications using Github's Electron

© Chris Griffith, Leif Wells 2017

Chris Griffith and Leif Wells, Electron: From Beginner to Pro, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2826-5_14

14. Testing with Spectron

Chris Griffith¹  and Leif Wells²

(1)San Diego, California, USA

(2)Atlanta, Georgia, USA

“Testing is Hard.”

This is something you may have heard before. Experienced developers have heard it a number of times over their careers. Testing, be it unit testing or end-to-end testing, seems to have fluctuated in and out of vogue with many developers over the years. But testing has always been important. The ability to test an application in an automated way is an invaluable asset to individual developers and Enterprise teams alike.

Since you are reading this chapter, we will assume you have already ...