The Way of the Web Tester

What We’ve Learned So Far

Hey—congratulations. You have now covered all three levels of the pyramid! Here’s a quick recap of some of the things we learned about unit tests:

• Unit tests form the base of our pyramid and are where we like to do the bulk of our testing.

• They are extremely quick and great for rapid feedback.

• They are highly local—which means we prefer to avoid things like network calls.

• Mocking is a technique we can use to get at hard-to-reach places in the code that we want to test.

Now that you’ve got the basics of unit testing covered, it’s time to look at a particular kind of unit test that’s very popular when testing the logic in ...