Every codebase starts with good intentions. You write a few test fixtures. A few Storybook mocks....
Every codebase starts with good intentions.
You write a few test fixtures. A few Storybook mocks. Maybe a factory or two.
Then six months later:
Your schema has changed 14 times.
Half your fixtures are out of date.
Paste a TypeScript interface or Zod schema, get copy-ready export const mock fixtures. No setup, no backend, nothing leaves the…
You've fixed your locators. You've switched to web-first assertions. Your tests still fail...
The failure starts small A test that passes 200 times and fails once does not feel urgent....
In Chapter 7 we turned data and the API context into fixtures. But our UI tests still open with...
About a month ago I hit that point in a project where the business logic was solid, the API endpoints...
You know this feeling. A test passes locally, fails in CI, you rerun it, it passes again. Somewhere a...
