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Unit Testing Polymer Elements

Deprecated. See https://www.polymer-project.org/articles/unit-testing-elements.html for the latest version.

Unit Testing Polymer Elements

Note: this guide is a work-in-progress and will be added to the Polymer docs when it's ready. We have updated <seed-element> to include unit tests and this guide has been moved to Google docs. Expect a version on the Polymer site before the end of September.

After spending days working on your <super-awesome> Polymer element, you’re finally ready to share it with the rest of the world. You add the code for using it to your demo, iterate on it over time and come back to it one day when..uh oh. The demo broke because something has gone horribly wrong. Suddenly, <super-awesome> isn’t starting to look so great. Now you’re stuck trying to backtrack through your commit log to figure out how you broke the code. You’re not going to have a fun time.

If you’ve been working on the front-end for a while, even if you haven’t really played with Polymer elements before, this s