> As a solo developer you will seldom need more than unit tests unless you have a customer who is familiar with API testing tools like Cucumber.
I find this surprising -- but I am not an industry veteran. I make extensive use of integration tests for my consumer facing webapp SaaS:
My integration test framework spins up the API and a blank database (actually, one set for each test!), and then systematically tests the system from the perspective of an API consumer (i.e., the frontend; but its tests are elsewhere).
It has been essential to make sure the API interface does what I believe it does.
lechiffre / Le Chiffre
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2023-02-28 17:23:42 UTC
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