Testing Recipes
  • Introduction
  • Cypress
    • How to navigate to a particular path
    • How to get hold of the currently focused element
    • How to confirm an element has a specific class
    • How to run just one of several tests
    • How to get hold of a specific element
    • How to type into an input field
    • How to confirm text value of input field
    • How to confirm list has expected number of items
    • How to stub a GET network request
    • How to wait for XHR response
    • How to create a single command from multiple commands
    • How to stub a POST network request
    • How to test for XHR failures
    • How to interact with hidden elements
    • How to create aliases for DOM elements
    • How to create a data-driven approach to testing
    • What are the different ways in which Cypress can be run
  • Jest
    • How can I test if a function was called?
    • How can I test if a curried function was called?
  • Architecture
    • How can I make my tests more declarative?
    • How can I make my tests more readable?
    • How can I speed up the writing of tests?
  • Enzyme
    • How can I set and get state in my component?
    • How can I simulate a click on a rendered component?
    • How can I simulate a change to an input field?
    • How can I check if a sub-component was rendered?
    • How can I invoke a method on my component?
    • How can I check to see if an event handler was invoked?
    • How can I set props and update a rendered component?
    • How can I mock the global window object in a test?
    • How can I mock functions used by the component I want to test?
  • Jasmine Recipes
    • How can I create a simple test suite?
    • What sort of matchers can I use on my expect calls?
    • How can I run code before and after each it block?
    • How can I mark tests as not having been implemented yet?
    • How can I spy on a method to check that it was called properly?
    • How can I test asynchronous code?
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  1. Enzyme

How can I mock functions used by the component I want to test?

// Here are some functions we want to use for analytics
export default = (data) => window.digitalData.push(data) 
const popData = () => window.digitalData.pop(data) 
export { popData }
// Our component makes use of the calls to the analytic functions
import * from './analytics'
const Header = () => {
  pushData('header loaded')
  popData()
  return <h1>Title</h1>
}
// This is how we can test our component, while mocking the analytics calls it makes.
// If we do NOT mock these analytic calls, our tests may fail with a message stating
// that `window.digitalData` is undefined.
import { shallow } from 'enzyme'
import * as analytics from './analytics'
describe('<Header />', () => {
  const originalDefault = analytics.default
  const originalPopData = analytics.popData
  beforeEach(() => {
    analytics.default = jest.fn()
    analytics.popData = jest.fn()
  })
  afterEach(() => {
    analytics.default = originalDefault
    analytics.popData = originalPopData
  })
  it('should render correctly', () => {
    const header = shallow(<Header />)
    expect(header.text()).toBe('Title')
  })
})
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