Unit Testing Framework for n8n: Preview from the Prague Meetup (Sept 2024)

[@liammcgarrigle]

This was a lot of fun! Anyone watching please feel free to reach out to be with any questions 😊 Edit: for anyone watching this now, this is not working at the moment. I'm waiting for n8n to stabilize their new canvas before rewriting

[@fitnessmarketingmachine]

Thanks so much for doing this. I realize things like this spur the utmost excitement 🤩 in our development lab 🧪 as we realize the impact this will make on our efforts, and particularly the efforts of others, if you're building this for people using n8n to benefit from. However, that can be a thankless job in reality when things hit the scene because people get too busy 🏃‍♂ being obsessed 🤔 over whether they're able to learn the concepts and implement them or not, and they forget that a real-life human 🧑‍💻 actually put all this together for us. So I just wanted to take the time and say thanks 🙏. As somebody who runs an automation agency 🤖 and has hundreds of clients, I know that the individual automator doesn't always appreciate the level of detail 🧐 necessary to successfully service other accounts, but there are many of us who do right now and many more that will as they build their businesses 📈. (I never realized how tolerant I was of my own errors and mistakes until I started having to deploy things for other people, haha!) 😂 I have a couple of ideas 💡 and questions ❓. Number one, I'd love to know more about the anatomy of your unit tests 🧩 in a low-code environment, as I'm not a developer by trade. I try to learn from developers as much as possible 🤓. The phone 📞 number thing was cool. I'd love to be able to see those workflows specifically. And I would assume there are several other foundational unit test opportunities that would commonly be used by people in our situations. Number two, I think that'd be an awesome series 📺 to have on your KZbin channel 🎥. "The Developer's Mindset" playlist. It could cover concepts essential to software development that sometimes get overlooked in our low-code, no-code environment 🌐 (because we can kind-of get away without doing these things early in our development.) I'm sure this will all be a really helpful addition to our efforts to stay extremely agile 🏃‍♀ and yet extremely accurate 🎯 in our automation workflows. Thanks again! 🙌

[@bluetheredpanda]

Props on the great work Liam 👏

[@patbreitenmoser]

@liammcgarrigle this is awesome! lookinf forward to the production ready version. having run n8n in production this is a thing that is missing. thank you for spending time on this

[@fabriai]

This is a big step forward in terms of developer experience. Thanks for sharing

[@bluetheredpanda]

This is very exciting, would love to see this in the main n8n branch!

[@liammcgarrigle]

Me too! i'm trying to convince them 😅 may not be exactly like this but something will be coming 🤫