Mastering React Test-Driven Development

Acceptance tests

Acceptance tests are written by the customer, or a proxy to the customer such as a product owner, where 'acceptance' refers to a quality gate that must be passed for the released software to be accepted as complete. Of course, your unit tests should be accepted too, but since they are at a very low level, it's unlikely you'll discuss them with your customer.

Now, the problem involves customers writing tests; the Gherkin syntax that we saw in Chapters 13 & 14 is one way of doing this.

Acceptance tests will often cover multiple processes, just like integration tests, and may run in a distributed environment to mimic production.

Acceptance tests are costly to build and maintain. Fortunately, they can be introduced gradually, ...