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Should i write tests if it takes more time than testing manually?
Im making a website and trying to learn Test Driven Development (TDD) I'm doing one of CS50 projects, were we need to make a website to trade stocks. I decided to use this oportunity to learn TDD. I ...
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What are the criterion to understand if someone used TDD?
I'm approaching the TDD methodology for software development, reading guides and writing simple applications, because a client of my company wants a software and asked to develop it using TDD ...
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What relates to unit testing as requirements relate to system testing?
In system testing, a software system is tested against requirements. In unit testing, a software module is tested against the internal requirements for this module which depend on the specific ...
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Should outgoing messages from object under test be tested?
I was watching a recording of a conference by Sandi Metz on testing. One of the things that I struggled with was that she said not to test outputs of the object under test (her example was query ...
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How to tackle long process system tests?
My service has long running processes. For example - user can signup, but if email not verified after 7 days, we send a reminder email. I need my system test to cover this scenario as well. ...
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Should integration test coverage allow for lower unit test code coverage? [duplicate]
If a project has 30% coverage by unit tests, 40% due to integration tests, is it fair to say the total is 70% as so moderately well covered? Or are unit tests only ever used as the standard test ...
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designing classes for testability
I am writing a library for OVH api calls, and I am wondering how to make it friendly for unit tests. I have a class APIClient. The constructor of this class initializes the object with all parameters, ...
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Guideline/best practices on what traits/categories to give to tests
Is there any standard on what traits/categories to give to tests? Here is an example: using Xuint; public class XUnitTest1 { [Fact] [Trait("Category", "CI")] public void TestMethodX1() {...
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Can I have more than one describe per test spec?
I started to writing tests a few time ago and faced a non-mature question: can I have more than one describe per unit test file? If so, in what circumstances this will happen? Because so far, I'm ...
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Multiple entrance points in project
My question is related to C++ but it comes from Java actually. When I was programming Java I had multiple classes, which were derived from a base "Test" class. Their purpose was to test things - run ...
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What's the point of Continuous Integration services like Travis CI?
As far as I can tell, services like Travis CI and CircleCI take your project and run its test suite whenever you push a new change to your repository. Assuming that it's also possible to either ...
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How should I validate code when there is no one to do code review? [duplicate]
I'm used to working in a large development environment where code is peer reviewed and tested by the client, who is usually an IT person themselves. I am now working at a very small company where I'm ...
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Alternative to "Passing/Broken build" indicator?
When having a continuous integration executing the tests at each commit, a common best practice is to have all the tests passing at all times (aka "do not break the build"). I find some problems with ...
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What kind of test should be given to Java EE programmers? [closed]
I'm looking to hire developers and I wish to test them. I have been especially told by my boss that we should have programmers on board that can consult on banking sector software and I'm to come up ...
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Product Owner and automated tests
One of the claims of BDD-style development is that it bridges the gap between Product Owner and developers: the Product Owner writes a story, which can be converted in an equivalent automated test "...
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