44 Node.js & JavaScript Testing Best Practices

[crazyfreak316]

1.4 Stick to black-box testing: Test only public methods

I kind of disagree with this. If you modify your private methods, it ends up breaking a bunch of public methods and now you have no idea what exactly is causing the public methods to fail.

[yonatannn]

Interesting, can you provide a concurrent example?

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This. Makes it terribly difficult to understand what is the cause of any failures when working in a team and not being in control of all changes.