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[Aaron Bentley <aaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 11-04-13 08:16 PM, Ian Booth wrote:
>> By "user-initiated action", do you you mean simulating mouse clicks?  I
>> would have though you'd be testing callbacks rather than the actual UI.
>>
> 
> Yes, simulating mouse clicks. Think of it as black box testing.

It don't do black-box unit tests, only black-box integration tests, so
it seems a bit odd to me.

> Often
> the callbacks are not exposed and accessible to the test harness and you
> want to see that all the internal wiring of handlers and callbacks is
> correct and the DOM is properly updated (the output) in response to a
> user action (the input), albeit short circuiting that aspect of the
> interaction that occurs outside the component under test.

But then again, this sounds a lot like an integration test.

Aaron
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