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Testing Trophy

Also known as: test trophy
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Definition

Kent C. Dodds' shape for a test suite — static analysis at the base, a thin band of unit tests, a wide band of integration tests, and a small cap of end-to-end tests

The argument is confidence per unit of effort: integration tests catch the bugs that matter at a cost you can afford, and the type checker and linter catch a class of bugs for free. "Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration."

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The testing trophyEnd-to-enda few — the paths a visitor walksIntegrationmost — confidence per effort spentUnitsome — the logic worth isolatingStatictypes and lint — a class of bugs, free
Kent C. Dodds' trophy: "Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration." — with static analysis as the base you get for free.

The shape this repository leans toward: linting and type checking as the floor, component tests in a real Nuxt runtime as the bulk, Playwright on the paths a visitor actually walks. The pyramid's base is the trophy's waist.

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Testing PyramidStatic AnalysisIntegration TestingUnit TestingE2E Testing
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