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+import * as React from "react";
+import * as renderer from "react-test-renderer";
+import { Compare } from "../frontend/components//leftPanel/Compare";
+import { shallow } from "enzyme";
+import { stringify } from "querystring";
+
+describe ("Comparison feature tests", () => {
+  // wrapper will be assigned the evaluation of the shallow render
+  let wrapper;
+
+  const props = {
+    queries: [],
+    currentSchema: '',
+
+  }
+  // shallow render the component before running tests
+  beforeAll(() => {
+    wrapper = shallow(<Compare {...props}/>)
+  })
+
+  it('Should render a div', () => {
+    expect(wrapper.type()).toEqual('div');
+  })
+
+  it('Should render h3 tag', () => {
+    expect(wrapper.containsMatchingElement(
+    <h3>Comparisons</h3>)).toBeTruthy();
+  })
+
+  it('Should render query label', () => {
+    expect(wrapper.containsMatchingElement(
+      <td>{'Query Label'}</td>)).toBeTruthy();
+  })
+
+
+
+
+
+})
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