How OpenXcell Team Thoroughly Tests ReactJS Applications Before Publishing

Testing React Applications with Jest: The modem mobile application development process is becoming easier and rich with each passing day. With mobile application development companies adopting the latest technologies and methodologies in each phase of the app development life cycle, the application that is developed is feature-rich and robust indeed. 

When it comes to the testing phase, it should be made sure that the applications or technologies used should be on-point to provide clients with a perfect application as requested. Testing front-end applications is becoming easier with time and OpenXcell uses the latest technologies for this. Here, the testing process of ReactJS applications before publishing by the expert team at OpenXcell is discussed. 

Whenever our team is testing, specifically front end, there are a number of things that we consider while testing React Applications with Jest.

• We believe in early testing. The sooner we get the bugs, the sooner we can solve it in the iteration and save our development time in the final stages
• Focus is laid on the crucial parts while testing and exhaustive testing is kept secondary to cover more than 90% of scenarios
• We make sure that our testing processes are updated regularly, as running the same tests over the applications will not give us new results
• Each application is unique and so we believe in context testing. Some applications focus only on a few specific features, while others need the overall application to be flawless
• It is made sure that the application has requested features and does not contain any error by providing smooth functionalities after publishing

How OpenXcell Team Tests ReactJS Applications

The experienced testing team at OpenXcell performs testing of ReactJS applications with Jest. Jest is a JavaScript testing framework that checks upon the accurateness of the JavaScript code. Jest is owned by Facebook and it is based on Jasmine. 

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A major reason to use Jest is that it gives the ‘zero configuration’ testing platform to run tests parallelly but isolated and thus maximizes the performance. Documentation and maintenance of the toolkit are superb as Jest provides everything in one single toolkit. 

Highlighting features of Jest:

Zero Configuration

With this feature, you can use Jest configuration free and thus makes the testing process easier and fast

Snapshots 

You can embed snapshots inline or keep them live with your tests to keep a track of large objects

Isolated Tests

Run tests parallel to each other but in their own individual processes and thus you an give a boost to your performance

Lightning Fast  

Jest runs tests parallel to each other, and so the process of testing becomes faster by maximizing the performance as well. Jest starts by re-running the failed tests and then the new tests

Code Coverage

With built-in coverage reports, Jest requires no additional setup. Code coverage information from the entire project and untested files as well. 

Great Exceptions

When the tests fail, Jest provides a rich context stating why the application has failed and thus you can solve it while re-running the test again

Easy to Setup

Jest is the easiest testing framework to set up and it’s very easy to install. You have to just find an empty directory to install it and start using it

Good Mocks

When we are doing unit testing, mocking is really very important. Jest provides simple mock functions, timer mocks, manual module mocks, ES6 class mocks, and more

TypeScript Support

Jest provides support to TypeScript which is a typed superset of JavaScript that further compiles to plain JavaScript

Delta Testing with Watch

You can run Jest in watch-mode and it runs the test automatically whenever there is a change in code

Our testing process is designed to make sure that all these features are leveraged to its fullest to make a robust and error-free ReactJS application. The testing process is categorized into three main types, namely, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, and End to End Testing. The maximum focus of time and effort is laid on End to End testing, then Integration testing, and lastly on Unit testing. 

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When we are testing, we make sure that the tests are written in a way that it tests only the logic that is rendered and the internal implementation is not considered. In short, our tests focus more on what the user sees or interacts with. Using Jest provides another benefit, that is we are independent of testing the lifecycle as React itself tests that. 

We make sure that our tests are smaller and thus are easier to read, implement, and interpret. When it comes to comparatively bigger components, our team splits it into smaller pieces and then performs testing for ensuring proper testing. 

Testing React applications with Jest has proved to be a boon for the team at OpenXcell as it makes the testing process more efficient and easy. Jest being a node-based runner, it does not run the tests in the real-browser, rather it runs them in the Node environment with fake DOM implementation. 

The basic flow of using Jest for testing is,

• Libraries are installed and webpack is run
• React countdown timer is started
• Tests customized to the application are written
• Testing components are run
• Finally, the business logic is tested

Test-driven development is also implemented sometimes by the team at OpenXcell for some of the applications where the code is written only if the automated test fails and thus the duplication of code is eliminated. 

Conclusion

The team at OpenXcell makes sure that testing ReactJS apps with Jest is done on-point to provide the clients with an application that is flawless and gives them the desired experience after publishing. You can get benefits of these and more advanced technologies incorporated in the mobile application development process with OpenXcell. Grab your requirements, send in, and get an application tailored to your requirements.