This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at:
Developing robust shiny apps with regression testing
https://www.rstudio.com/resources/videos/developing-robust-shiny-apps-with-regression-testing/
For Shiny applications, and especially for those that are used in production, you don’t want them break due to minor code changes or upgrades of the underlying software. In this talk I’ll show how to use the Shinytest package to create and run automated tests for your Shiny applications, so that you can be confident that code changes and software upgrades won’t cause unexpected problems.
Slides: rstudio-conf/2018/Shinytest-Winston_Chang at master · rstudio/rstudio-conf · GitHub
Winston Chang - Software Engineer, RStudio
Winston is a software engineer at RStudio, and is a developer for the Shiny, ggplot2, and devtools packages. He holds a Ph.D. in psychology from Northwestern University and is the author of R Graphics Cookbook, published by O’Reilly Media.