This year I published my first article "How our team writes React tests and other stuff too" . What happened after sharing my content didn't follow the script I had envisioned. The results are not surprising; here is what happened.

• Viewership was lower than I expected
• No one commented
• Reddit removed my posts
• Sharing this content was useful for myself
• I gained valuable insights
• There is a great deal more for me to learn about writing & publishing online

Have you ever worked in a codebase where each test file was different to the next? Different terminology and grouping of test scenarios; different usages of snapshot testing and react-testing-library.

The effect of this meant wasted time reading a full test file to understand its structure before adding another test case. Creating new tests involved making multiple decisions; should I copy the structure of an existing test or create a new one? Should I use snapshot tests?

We solved this problem by defining guidelines to follow, that make writing tests that are easy to read and write, and would reduced wasted time on decisions.