Snapshot through the heart

Published on July 02, 2020 and filed under Software engineering
Written by Emma Fabre and will take

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In short

Testing is constantly made easier with better tools and paradigms, like snapshot testing. It has become very prevalent these past years thanks to Jest, but as powerful as it is, it can also be misused just as easily. Here are a couple of dos and donts of snapshot testing that we've learned the hard way.

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Written by

Emma Fabre

Emma is madewithlove's ‘French Connection’. She's one of the few software engineers that speaks French fluently, thanks to being born and raised in the land of berets and baguettes.

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