Best practice for testing reusable UI elements shared across multiple flows
A developer asks how to structure automated tests for a UI element, such as a date picker, that is reused across many pages and user flows: whether to test it standalone, implicitly through the flows that use it, or both. This reflects a common uncertainty about test coverage strategy for shared components rather than a gap in tooling itself.
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