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Effective Software Testing
bits and pieces on software testing, design, maintenance, and evolution. A continuation of the https://www.effective-software-testing.com book.
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Stop the bleeding
If you work on a legacy system, you probably have questioned a technical decision or two there.
What's the root cause of your lack of testing?
Whenever you gather a team to discuss their insufficient testing efforts, common responses include:
Test data builders or SQL files?
What's the best way to populate database data?
Tests breaking because of mocks, what to do?
I had to suddenly change the internals of a class a couple weeks ago.
Unit or integration tests?
It doesn't matter!
How we can make it easy?
An example with code!
It has to be easy!
One of the biggest truths when it comes to developer testing is that it has to be easy!
Divide to conquer
In enterprise systems, especially those that are a little distributed, a common argument against unit testing is that "in real life, most bugs occur when apps communicate with each other".
Internals vs peers, a nice guide on when to mock
We are all past the idea that a unit testing has to only test a single class, isolating it from all its dependencies.