The Drawbacks of End-To-End Testing
Explore the key drawbacks of end-to-end testing in Next.js applications using Cypress. Understand challenges like test maintenance, execution speed, environment constraints, debugging, and realistic data use. Learn how to plan tests carefully to balance coverage and performance while prioritizing critical features. Gain insights into overcoming common obstacles to write effective and maintainable end-to-end tests.
End-to-end tests are difficult to write due to how many different parts of our application they interact with. To get great value from our tests, we must design them properly to hit our most important goals without wasting time on maintaining them.
To write efficient end-to-end tests, we need to know the drawbacks to work around them. Taking time to plan and design our tests can help us make important decisions about our testing strategy.
When we want to plan our tests, we should raise the following questions:
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What features and user journeys do we want to prioritize in testing?
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What services are we using, and can we run them in ...