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Simplify Testing with React Testing Library
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Simplify Testing with React Testing Library

by Scottie Crump
May 2021
Intermediate to advanced
246 pages
5h
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 3: Testing Complex Components with React Testing Library

In Chapter 2, Working with React Testing Library, we learned how to test presentational components. However, most features are designed to allow user actions that result in changes to the state and resulting output. Testing as many user action scenarios as possible is essential for reducing risk before sending code to production for end users. By the end of this chapter, you will learn how to simulate user actions with the fireEvent and user-event modules. You will learn how to test components that interact with web service APIs. Finally, you will learn how to use test-driven development as a workflow for building your features.

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