From the course: Learning End-to-End Testing with Jest

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Basics of end-to-end tests

Basics of end-to-end tests

- [Instructor] End to end testing, also called E2E testing, involves testing the different flows a user might take in a software system from beginning to end. Usually end to end testing is performed after you need testing and integration testing. It's aimed at testing the whole software for dependencies, data integration, and communication with others systems and databases to exercise complete production like scenario and ensure excellent user experience. End to end testing helps you, and show you application is production ready, and avoid post-release risks. Some of it's benefits are: it confirms your application health by validating that your software is functional at every level, it increases test coverage, by incorporating the many different subsystems in your testing process, and creating additional test cases, that may have not been previously considered, it detects bugs and ensure application workflow operates as…

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