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# Testing standards and style guidelines
This document describes various guidelines and best practices for automated
testing of the GitLab project.
It is meant to be an _extension_ of the [thoughtbot testing
styleguide](https://github.com/thoughtbot/guides/tree/master/style/testing). If
this guide defines a rule that contradicts the thoughtbot guide, this guide
takes precedence. Some guidelines may be repeated verbatim to stress their
importance.
## Overview
GitLab is built on top of [Ruby on Rails](https://rubyonrails.org/), and we're using [RSpec] for all
the backend tests, with [Capybara] for end-to-end integration testing.
On the frontend side, we're using [Jest](https://jestjs.io/) and [Karma](http://karma-runner.github.io/)/[Jasmine](https://jasmine.github.io/) for JavaScript unit and
integration testing.
Following are two great articles that everyone should read to understand what
automated testing means, and what are its principles:
- [Five Factor Testing](https://madeintandem.com/blog/five-factor-testing/): Why do we need tests?
- [Principles of Automated Testing](http://www.lihaoyi.com/post/PrinciplesofAutomatedTesting.html): Levels of testing. Prioritize tests. Cost of tests.
## [Testing levels](testing_levels.md)
Learn about the different testing levels, and how to decide at what level your
changes should be tested.
## [Testing best practices](best_practices.md)
Everything you should know about how to write good tests: Test Design, RSpec, FactoryBot,
system tests, parameterized tests etc.
## [Frontend testing standards and style guidelines](frontend_testing.md)
Everything you should know about how to write good Frontend tests: Karma,
testing promises, stubbing etc.
## [Flaky tests](flaky_tests.md)
What are flaky tests, the different kind of flaky tests we encountered, and what
we do about them.
## [GitLab tests in the Continuous Integration (CI) context](ci.md)
How GitLab test suite is run in the CI context: setup, caches, artifacts,
parallelization, monitoring.
## [Review apps](review_apps.md)
How review apps are set up for GitLab CE/EE and how to use them.
## [Testing Rake tasks](testing_rake_tasks.md)
Everything you should know about how to test Rake tasks.
## [End-to-end tests](end_to_end/index.md)
Everything you should know about how to run end-to-end tests using
[GitLab QA][gitlab-qa] testing framework.
## [Migrations tests](testing_migrations_guide.md)
Everything you should know about how to test migrations.
[Return to Development documentation](../README.md)
[RSpec]: https://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails#feature-specs
[Capybara]: https://github.com/teamcapybara/capybara
[gitlab-qa]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-qa