Verify Email Snapshots

Snapshot Testing Email Templates with Verify

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

• Testing email template rendering for regressions
• Validating MJML templates compile to expected HTML
• Reviewing email changes in code review (diffs are visual)
• Ensuring variable substitution works correctly

Related skills:

• aspnetcore/mjml-email-templates - MJML template authoring
• aspire/mailpit-integration - Test email delivery locally
• testing/snapshot-testing - General Verify patterns

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Why Snapshot Test Emails?

Email templates are:

1. Visual - Small changes can break rendering across clients
2. Hard to unit test - Output is complex HTML, not simple values
3. Prone to regression - Template changes can have unintended effects

Snapshot testing captures the rendered HTML and fails when it changes unexpectedly.

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Installation

dotnet add package Verify.Xunit  # or Verify.NUnit, Verify.MSTest

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Basic Email Snapshot Test

[Fact]
public async Task UserSignupInvitation_RendersCorrectly()
{
    // Arrange
    var renderer = _services.GetRequiredService<IMjmlTemplateRenderer>();