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Daniel Irvine is a UK-based software consultant. He helps businesses simplify their existing codebases and assists dev teams in improving the quality of their software using eXtreme programming (XP) practices. He has been coaching developers for many years and co-founded the Queer Code London meetup.
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Submitting forms using spies

In this section, you’ll hand-craft a reusable spy function and adjust your tests to get them back into AAA order.

Here’s a reminder of how one of those tests looked, from the CustomerForm test suite. It’s complicated by the fact it’s wrapped in a test generator, but you can ignore that bit for now—it’s the test content that’s important:

const itSubmitsExistingValue = (fieldName, value) =>
  it("saves existing value when submitted", () => {
    expect.hasAssertions();
    const customer = { [fieldName]: value };
    render(
      <CustomerForm
        original={customer}
        onSubmit={(props) =>
          expect(props[fieldName]).toEqual(value)
 ...
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Daniel Irvine

Daniel Irvine is a UK-based software consultant. He helps businesses simplify their existing codebases and assists dev teams in improving the quality of their software using eXtreme programming (XP) practices. He has been coaching developers for many years and co-founded the Queer Code London meetup.
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