Getting under the surface with subcutaneous testing

15 May 2025

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Costa Giannakopoulos speaking to a full room at Leeds Testing Atelier, with a slide behind him reading “What the heck is subcutaneous testing?”
Costa Giannakopoulos introduced the term and concept of subcutaneous testing, an approach that sits just beneath the UI layer to test application logic directly.

He shared examples using PactumJS to show how this approach can reduce flaky UI tests while still covering key scenarios. A deep, technical talk that gave many a new term for a familiar strategy.
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