Biography

Yoni Goldberg is an independent consultant who works with Fortune 500 corporates and garage startups on polishing their backend applications. These days, he is fascinated by topics like the architecture of modern backends, production hardening, and testing. He is also the author of multiple known best practices guides like ‘JavaScript testing best practices, ‘Node.js best practices’ (80,000 GitHub stars).

Talk

The Art of (Backend) Component Testing

The ‘testing diamond’ model is super hot nowadays. This model encourages writing mostly integration/component tests and is the most discussed technique of the past years. Surprisingly, almost zero books are written on this matter and the best practices for writing those are still vague. This talk is all about code-level patterns and practices for writing GREAT component tests. It shows live how to write component tests that tick the good from all worlds: As fast as unit tests (well, almost) and as realistic as E2E.

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