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October 31, 2025

Making Tests

Easier than ever.

UI testing can be painful. You have to:

  • Configure a headless browser
  • Figure out what components need to be tested
  • Mock/stub interfaces for external systems (data storage)
  • Think of test cases that actually exercise the tricky functionality
  • Find ways to ignore small issues (console warnings)
  • Learn the details of a specific test framework (jest)

And the list goes on. With AI, you can blast through a test suite setup in minutes. I now have dozens of tests, veriifying things like row selection, insertion, keyboard shortcuts, and other UI interactions that I just (fingers crossed) hoped would still works after I made them years ago. (With a giant React Refactoring underway, who knows what has been deprecated?)

And if AI misses a test? No problem, I add it after.