Testing the Test

Code in automated tests should also be tested… right? A lot of developers avoid writing automated code tests, or at least writing proper ones. Having a basic rendering test for a component or a class, generated by your framework, doesn’t count as testing.

The post covers minimising logic in tests, giving them a common structure, testing the test by breaking the code on purpose, mutation testing, TDD, and answering “how good are my tests?”.

This is an excerpt — the full article was published on the Productive Engineering Blog.