Have you tried using Jest mocks to replicate shallow rendering? If not, maybe try suggesting this approach to your architect. See FAQ for more info.
Using Jest mocks is actually a more powerful approach anyways, since it allows you to explicitly choose which components to mock. With shallow, all components are mocked, even if they're defined in the same file.
Yep. His concern was that it's too ez to not mock and then developers would put a bunch of tests into the component higher up in the tree, making it harder to maintain, whereas when shallow rendering just mocks as much as possible, encouraging to test whatever the current component does.
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Have you tried using Jest mocks to replicate shallow rendering? If not, maybe try suggesting this approach to your architect. See FAQ for more info.
Using Jest mocks is actually a more powerful approach anyways, since it allows you to explicitly choose which components to mock. With
shallow, all components are mocked, even if they're defined in the same file.Yep. His concern was that it's too ez to not mock and then developers would put a bunch of tests into the component higher up in the tree, making it harder to maintain, whereas when shallow rendering just mocks as much as possible, encouraging to test whatever the current component does.