In the hierarchy of things developers like to do, writing tests falls at about the \u201cnecessary evil\u201d level. Like eating a heaping pile of spinach, we know it\u2019s good for us\u2013but getting motivated to do it can be a struggle. Of course running the proper tests saves us a whole lot of time and money fixing bugs down the line, but even then there are usually a million other things we\u2019d rather do than write tests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Luckily for us, many other software developers also didn\u2019t like doing it, so they created lots of automated testing tools to make it easier. These days you can find a tool for just about any testing type and programming language. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
For end-to-end testing you have your choice of tools like Cypress<\/a>, Pupp<\/a>e<\/a>teer<\/a>, Webdriver<\/a>, and Selenium<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Unit, integration, and static testing tools tend to be more language-specific. Popular tools like JUnit<\/a>, Jest<\/a>, pylint<\/a>, mocha<\/a>, and Visual Studio\u2019s built-in unit test feature<\/a> make it easier to automate your testing set-up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But no matter which tools you decide to use, it\u2019s essential to know how — and when<\/em> — to use them. <\/p>\n\n\n