Frontend Testing

Estimated Time: 15 hours

Status: ☐ Not Started

🎯 Objectives

• Understand what testing is and why it matters
• Write unit tests for JavaScript and React components
• Use Jest and React Testing Library (RTL) to write meaningful tests
• Practice Test-Driven Development (TDD) on a small feature
• Learn how to mock data and simulate user actions in tests

🔗 Resources

1. Jest – Official Docs

   Learn how to write unit tests, run test suites, and understand assertions

2. React Testing Library – Docs

   For testing React components by simulating user behavior

3. Intro to Unit Testing with Jest – Net Ninja (YouTube)

   Covers fundamentals in a clear visual format

4. Testing React Apps – Fireship (YouTube)

   12-minute speedrun on how to test real-world React components

✅ Tasks

• [ ] Install Jest and write unit tests for a small JavaScript module (e.g., calculator logic)
• [ ] Test at least one of your previous vanilla JS projects using Jest