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Testing Visual Studio Code extensions

Talkat FOSDEM 2021 · on Saturday, 2021-02-06· at 16:55· D.testing· [developer-experience, testing]

speaker

name:Dan Čermák
website:https://dancermak.name

resources

video:https://video.fosdem.org/2021/D.testing/testing_vscode_extensions.mp4
slides:https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/testing_vscode_extensions/attachments/slides/4539/export/events/attachments/testing_vscode_extensions/slides/4539/testing_vscode_extensions.tar.gz
https://github.com/dcermak/fosdem_2021

summary

Covers testing strategies for Visual Studio Code extensions, comparing unit testing approaches (including mocks and their limitations) with integration tests. Describes lessons learned from developing the Open Build Service Connector and presents practical tooling recommendations, specifically discussing viable unit-test patterns and the vscode-extension-tester module used for integration tests.

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