What Is Frontend Testing In 2019

hello everybody and welcome to this dot JavaScript state of testing this is a semi-annual event that we put on to talk about everything happening in the world of front-end testing very excited to have some awesome testing experts here today we have Simon beckus from folio and a core contributor to jest we have club over here who is a VP of engineering at Cyprus vikram super on

ian who is on the angular core team at google adam Carmy co-founder and CTO of applitools guillermo rauch who is the founder of site kevin lamping who is a developer with test automation and also web driver so big thanks to our sponsors apple tools as well for sponsoring this awesome event we have semi annually they do visual testing and you should definitely check them out at Apple's calm in addition to that giving you guys

an update on some interesting events that we have coming up so we will have state of browsers coming up I believe that is in May so look out for that and we also have graphical contributor days happening in May as well so check those out at this CEO my name is Tracy you can follow me on twitter at lady Li I will be monitoring if you have any questions during the live stream you can go ahead

and ask those in the live chat or you can use the hashtag this.j s on Twitter as well so conversation definitely doesn't stop here and I think that is it from me and I think I want to just jump in really quickly and we are going to get started with Simon who again is a developer appFolio and a core contributor to jest and Simon I'll let you take it away from here thank you

correctly yeah let's go perfect so cookie Who am I I'm a JavaScript developer living in Oslo Norway I work at a company called folio and it's a start-up we just launched last week creating a bank for small businesses and I'm also got the Heisenberg contributions to just in the last two and a half years which I guess it's the most interesting thing in this context

more and more people are starting to use just this is the downloads charts for last year it's been a crazy 2019 as you can see more than tripling our downloads and I'd like to quickly at home why I think that is most I think is because it's batteries included so you don't have to install anything other than just and then you're on just and all the

tests will run no matter how you can figure it out of the box it sort of just works you're comping which is a meme at this point I suppose but just actually works that way but if you have some sort of weird configuration you can still configure it to do whatever you want middle school wash mode and but one of the main things is of course that Facebook developed and uses it very visibly in the community so whenever you

use reactor instance the number one guide is always suggest since it's so big that means that other people are creating plug-ins for it so if whatever ie use whatever terminal you use whatever OS you use it's probably gonna work just fine and this is we're very proud of this this is a screenshot from the state of Jas 2018 we're just won the highest satisfaction award so we seem to be doing something right it's not just big because it's big um one thing I want to