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# It's a (testing) trap! - Common testing pitfalls and how to solve them


- **Date:** Friday, Jul 19, 2024
- **Time:** 13:40–14:10 (30 min)
- **Room:** STAGE 10 (120)
- **Event:** World Congress 2024

## Recording

[Watch recording](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1193-it-s-a-testing-trap-common-testing-pitfalls-and-how-to-solve-them)

## Description

“It’s a trap” - a call or feeling we all might be familiar with, not only when it comes to Star Wars. It’s signalizing a sudden moment of noticing imminent danger. This situation is an excellent allegory for an unpleasant realization in testing. Imagine having the best intentions when it comes to testing but still ending up with tests failing to deliver you any value at all? Tests who are feeling like a pain to deal with?

When writing frontend tests, there are lots of pitfalls on the way. In sum, they can lead to lousy maintainability, slow execution time, and - in the worst-case - tests you cannot trust. But it doesn’t have to be that way. In this session, I will talk about developers’ common mistakes (including mine), at least from my experience. And, of course, on how to avoid them. Testing doesn’t need to be painful, after all.


## Speaker

### [Ramona Schwering](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@ramona-schwering)

Developer Advocate, Auth0 by Okta


## Related talks at this congress

- [Test-reduction - Doing more with less](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/272-test-reduction-doing) — Ewald
- [Plants vs thieves: Automated Tests in the World of Web Security](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/144-plants-vs-thieves) — Ramona Schwering
- [Test Intelligence for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/418-test-intelligence) — Elmar Jürgens
- [Why I Love End-2-End Tests and How To Get Them Right](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/27-why-i-love-end-2-end) — Johannes Stern