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Ensuring unit test data stays accurate
Say I have a method that expects data to be in some form to perform accurately. In the actual service/application flow, that data is formed upstream in other methods or services. How can I ensure the ...
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NUnit testOf attribute usage
What are the use cases of TestOf? I'm new to NUnit testing and from what I have seen, most people don't use this attribute that much. From my experience, TestOf helped me to quickly identify what ...
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TDD and code reusability
Let's say that I've been iterating over my feature A with TDD. After several red-green-refactor cycles, I ended up with a nicely polished implementation with a part of the SUT encapsulated into some ...
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TDD when removing long lived feature
Suppose I had some Manager class that I need to change in regards to existing functionality by removing code. The Manager always sends an initial message after a connection was established to do an ...
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Would you test this piece of configuration code? How do I determine which code is worth testing?
We have a piece of code that decorates an interface to transparently add retry logic. Inversion of Control configuration service.AddOurRestApiClient() .AddResilienceHandler("Retry", ...
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Load Testing for Large-Scale Architecture Involving Cloud Servers and Switches
We currently have an architectural setup as described below. Our plan is to conduct a load test, but we face a challenge due to the high cost of real switches. We have two options: either build the ...
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TDD - What to do when adding a new function on a dependency causes many previous tests to fail?
I was programming today and encountered something that just feels like I'm doing something wrong (maybe?). I've encountered this situation before, but I wanted to reach out and ask if there's a better ...
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Code Coverage and Unit Tests nomenclature [closed]
About tests: I have the following view on nomenclature: Unit tests are the kind of testes where you have a function ExtractBacon, where there is a function with an entry parameter Pig and a return of ...
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Does the "Pyramid of tests" contradict the idea of tests focusing on behaviour?
I am talking about these two testing strategies : Have a pyramid of tests (with many more unit tests than high-level tests), because high level tests are harder to maintain and slower (see also : ...
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How to apply TDD to very high level functionality?
Another name for this question could be: How to TDD the main function? My situation: I'm writing a program from scratch that runs a sort of simulation, and I want to apply TDD to the whole development ...
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Where do unit tests stop and integration tests begin according to the classical school of unit testing?
There are two schools of thought on how unit tests should be written. The first is the Classical/Chicago school, which focuses on the isolation of unit tests, describes a unit as a class or set of ...
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TDD: testing an abstract class. Test all concrete classes or create mock sub-class to test the behavior?
Well, I'm developing a personal project using TDD and Clean Architecture, and I chose to build an abstract class to gather all use-cases behavior in one single class. My question is: What you think ...
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Is it worth testing simple details? [closed]
In front-end projects(made in frameworks like Angular or React), when we correctly encapsulate complex functionalities, the components that really have some relation to the business logic normally ...
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Should test resource files be stored inside the Java class source directories?
In a TDD (Test-Driven Development)-based Java project built by maven, lots of classes needs to be tested with text-based input files such as .csv. At the beginning, I put them into the src/test/...
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Should test cases show desired behavior or actual/current behavior, or can they do both?
Let's say I want to add tests to a software that has some flaws/bugs. I want to add the tests before I fix the bugs. And I want to actually merge them in the main branch, not just have them in a ...
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