Testing
In order to ensure that your Rindo components work the way you expect, Rindo provides testing support out of the box. Rindo offers both unit testing and end-to-end testing capabilities.
Unit Testing vs. End-to-end Testing​
Testing within Rindo is broken up into two distinct types: Unit tests and End-to-end (e2e) tests.
There are several philosophies on how testing should be done, and how to differentiate what should be considered a unit test versus an end-to-end test. Rindo takes an opinionated stance so developers have a description of each to better choose when to use each type of testing:
Unit tests focus on testing a component's methods in isolation. For example, when a method is given the argument
X, it should return Y.
End-to-end tests focus on how the components are rendered in the DOM and how the individual components work
together. For example, when my-component has the X attribute, the child component then renders the text Y, and
expects to receive the event Z.
Library Support​
Rindo currently supports the following tools for testing components:
- Rindo Test Runner: a built-in test runner based on Jest for unit and end-to-end testing with Puppeteer to run within an actual browser in order to provide more realistic results.
We are actively working to support a wider range of testing tools, including Playwright. Stay tuned for updates!