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Drawbacks of Component Testing

Understand the drawbacks of Cypress component testing, such as debugging difficulties, increased development time, limited scope for identifying integration bugs, and tight coupling with components. This lesson helps you decide when component tests are appropriate and how to balance them with end-to-end testing in Next.js projects.

While component and end-to-end tests share similarities in terms of using the same Cypress API, it is important to understand the distinctions between them. In a production application, both are valuable, but they also have benefits and drawbacks.

Hard to debug

To effectively utilize Cypress for component tests, it is necessary to have a deep understanding of its various stages, such as test setup and teardown. Knowledge ...