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📗🌐 🚢 Comprehensive and exhaustive JavaScript & Node.js testing best practices (March 2020)

👇 Why this guide can take your testing skills to the next level

📗 45+ best practices: Super-comprehensive and exhaustive

This is a guide for JavaScript & Node.js reliability from A-Z. It summarizes and curates for you dozens of the best blog posts, books and tools the market has to offer

🚢 Advanced: Goes 10,000 miles beyond the basics

Hop into a journey that travels way beyond the basics into advanced topics like testing in production, mutation testing, property-based testing and many other strategic & professional tools. Should you read every word in this guide your testing skills are likely to go way above the average

🌐 Full-stack: front, backend, CI, anything

Start by understanding the ubiquitous testing practices that are the foundation for any application tier. Then, delve into your area of choice: frontend/UI, backend, CI or maybe all of them?

Written By Yoni Goldberg

• A JavaScript & Node.js consultant
• 📗 Testing Node.js & JavaScript From A To Z - My comprehensive online course with more than 10 hours of video, 14 test types and more than 40 best practices
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Table of Contents

Section 0: The Golden Rule

A single advice that inspires all the others (1 special bullet)

Section 1: The Test Anatomy

The foundation - structuring clean tests (12 bullets)

Section 2: Backend

Writing backend and Microservices tests efficiently (8 bullets)

Section 3: Frontend

Writing tests for web UI including component and E2E tests (11 bullets)

Section 4: Measuring Tests Effectiveness

Watching the watchman - measuring test quality (4 bullets)

Section 5: Continuous Integration

Guidelines for CI in the JS world (9 bullets)

Team

Yoni Goldberg

Role: Writer

About: I'm an independent consultant who works with 500 fortune corporates and garage startups on polishing their JS & Node.js applications. More than any other topic I'm fascinated by and aims to master the art of testing. I'm also the author of Node.js Best Practices

📗 Online Course: Liked this guide and wish to take your testing skills to the extreme? Consider visiting my comprehensive course Testing Node.js & JavaScript From A To Z

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Bruno Scheufler

Role: Tech reviewer and advisor

Took care to revise, improve, lint and polish all the texts

About: full-stack web engineer, Node.js & GraphQL enthusiast

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Ido Richter

Role: Concept, design and great advice

About: A savvy frontend developer, CSS expert and emojis freak

Kyle Martin

Role: Helps keep this project running, and reviews security related practices

About: Loves working on Node.js projects and web application security.

Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people who have contributed to this repository!

Scott Davis 🖋	Adrien REDON 🖋	Stefano Magni 🖋	Yeoh Joer 🖋	Jhonny Moreira 🖋	Ian Germann 🖋	Hafez 🖋
Ruxandra Fediuc 🖋	Jack 🖋	Peter Carrero 🖋	Huhgawz 🖋	Haakon Borch 🖋	Jaime Mendoza 🖋	Cameron Dunford 🖋
John Gee 🖋	Aurelijus Rožėnas 🖋	Aaron 🖋	Tom Nagle 🖋	Yves yao 🖋	Userbit 🖋	Glaucia Lemos 🚧
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