Questions tagged [testing]
Verifying the behavior of a software system against the expected behavior of that system.
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Automatic regression tests with change detection in blue/green deployments
Our product is almost fully deployed in CI, however one remaining part that we have to wrap up is still the regression (update: characterization / golden master) testing: So considering we have a blue/...
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Clearing static state before testing each method
My SUT class depends on external static state (which generally should be avoided, I know). How do I make sure my tests do not depend on their order of execution? I mean other by introducing some reset(...
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Is Spring Boot Unit Test Coverage with Integration tests only a bad practice?
I have recently come across a few codebases at work where the previous developers chose to reach the >80% coverage criteria by writing only integration tests with the @SpringBootTest annotation ...
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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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Microservices shared end-to-end testing: Which version(s) of other microservices to use?
Introduction I am reading Building Microservices (second edition) by Sam Newman. In chapter 9 the author highlights 2 problems when desiging end-to-end testing for microservices: Which version of 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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Unit testing a Web Worker in JavaScript/TypeScript - Best Practice
I got assigned with writing unit tests for a class that instantiate a Worker inside in it's constructor. The code looks simmilar to this, class SomeClass { private _worker: Worker; constructor(...
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Testing for non-existence of a method in API
I am designing a fluent builder pattern API that branches and allows different options based on what has already been called. For example: Build().Foo().Bar() is valid code, but Build().Baz().Bar() ...
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Quality Assurance for Large SQL Script Releases
I'm often releasing large SQL scripts for projects and minor works - my problem is that there's nothing (except the logs) to indicate that the release was successful. There could be an object missing, ...
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Scoped E2e testing on a microservice
As many, we use microservices in my company and there's some debate in my group whether a microservice has e2e tests on it's own. I know e2e tests by definition are user flow tests. Lets take for ...
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Origins of Unit Testing in hardware?
According to the Wikipedia entry for Unit Testing, it is defined as a technique for testing components of a system in strict isolation from each other, and it is described as having been expressly ...
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Would a middle ground between unit and integration tests be optimal
I've read many posts about unit tests only testing one object/class and mocking of objects should only be for direct dependencies of the object under tests. The only other option discussed for ...
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Approach for implementing access permission tests for a large number of actions and multiple affiliations
I'm obviously having trouble creating a question that fits StackExchange guidelines in regard of opinions vs metrics. Any help to improve this question is highly appreciated. I'm searching for a ...
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How to present serious flaws in third-party software to non-technical users
We have third party software being tested. Our software has to interface with this, hence my involvement. There are some things I consider serious technical flaws. I'd like to communicate these things ...
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Should you test configuration?
There's a (mis)conception that you don't have to test configuration But what if your configuration is in the form of runnable code? What if it's not just static values? I wrote an abstraction for ...
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