#030 - JavaScript Unit Testing and You
Introduction
In this episode of Kentico Rocks, Brian McKeiver interviews Ondrej Polesny, Kentico Kontent developer evangelist, and Michal Vanzura, lead QA engineer on Kentico EMS. Brian, Ondrej, and Michal discuss the value of unit testing for software developers, what's the difference between unit testing, integration testing, and functional testing, and review a few options for performing JavaScript based testing with Jest and Cypress.
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In This Episode
Brian McKeiver chats about the following topics in Kentico Rocks podcast episode #30:
- Introducing Ondrej Polesny, Developer Evangelist at Kentico Kontent and Michal Vanzure QA Engineer at Kentico EMS.
- A quick intro into Unit Testing, Integration Testing, and Functional Testing
- The trio discusses how utilizing unit testing can improve software quality.
- Michal describes how Kentico uses JavaScript based testing with Jest on Kentico EMS.
- Brian mentions how BizStream uses Cypress as a JavaScript testing framework manually and as part of CI.
Related Links to this episode:
- Ondrej's Twitch Stream
- Follow Ondrej at @ondrabus
- JestJs.io Docs
- Cypress.io Docs
- Getting Started with Unit Testing in Stackoverflow
You can listen to the episode here on this blog post, it is embedded below:
You can also listen to the previous episode of Kentico Rocks where I talk about an interview with Ryan Overton.