Is manual unit testing becoming obsolete in 2026?

I’ve been spending way too much time lately writing boilerplate mocks and stubs for my unit tests. It feels like 40% of my dev time is just "typing for the sake of coverage." I’ve started experimentin

Is manual unit testing becoming obsolete in 2026?

I’ve been spending way too much time lately writing boilerplate mocks and stubs for my unit tests. It feels like 40% of my dev time is just "typing for the sake of coverage." I’ve started experimentin

Is manual unit testing becoming obsolete in 2026?

I’ve been spending way too much time lately writing boilerplate mocks and stubs for my unit tests. It feels like 40% of my dev time is just "typing for the sake of coverage." I’ve started experimentin

What's your Choice for Testing React Components

Do you have "non-critical" tests?

I'm working with a process like this: Every commit starts builds and tests If that succeeds, it can be deployed for manual testing by QA If they accept, it can be merged to master However there are some tests that are problematic, like Check that ...

Javascript Unit and Integration Testing

Hi guys, I have been working on a personal website application over the last few months. I wanted to ask about Javascript unit and integration testing. What is the standard in the industry in 2019 for automated tests targeting Javascript? Is it worth...

Need advice: How do you write tests?

We've our Rest API server built on NodeJS and we've started to implement "test". Our app consists of a lot of DB calls (mostly using ORM), API calls to FB and other 3rd party services, Message queue etc. We started implementing Unit tests. However, ...

How to deal with (testing) internal assumptions?

Let's say you have a method like (Java): private @Nonnull Optional<Thing> findByIdentifier(Integer thingIdentifier) { // More logic here return Optional.of(new Thing()); } There are two assumptions: thingIdentifier is a valid number (not nul...

What testing library would you recommend to use when developing Django Apps?

I am learning TDD in Django and based on the docs, there is unittest that is integrated with django (django.test). But would you recommend to use that, or do you use other testing library?

Testing in Laravel doesn't persist in method

I have this testing method: public function testCanResetPassword() { $this->call('POST', '/password/reset', [ 'email' => 'test@case.com', '_token' => csrf_token(), ])->assertStatus(200); $token = DB::table('password_rese...