📺 The Old Paradigm

The old pattern of testing involves executing the following steps for each and every single test we run using this pattern:

1. Create a new user
2. Login to the app
3. Create a new project
4. Perform test functions

As you might imagine this has some drawbacks that include the following:

• Every test is slowed down by performing the same setup.
• Most tests are therefore quite long because they opt to test “everything” in a given scope rather than break it up into smaller tests that would, again, perform all the exhaustive setup for each “small” thing to test.
• Much more crufty test data is generated in the DEV database which we feel is okay, however we’re interested in reducing that footprint overall.

📱 The New Paradigm

The new pattern of testing involves leveraging features of our testing library that allow us to better optimize how our tests to run in the following ways:

• Tests don’t have to create a new user/session/project each time.