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Unit testing is a method by which individual units of source code are tested to determine if they are fit for use.
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Unit test for Unique Position Point
Here is one of my msTest Unit Tests and possibly one of the worst "looking" tests.
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How to refactor code that violates the Law of Demeter without too much hassle? [on hold]
I'm facing a little problem regarding a piece of legacy code I'm working with and trying to make it Unit testable. Here's the chunk of it:
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Unit testing a click event with asynchronous content
I'm writing unit tests for a web application that has quite a lot of UI interactions. I would like some feedback regarding on how to handle click events with asynchronous code.
My goal here is to ...
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How to unit test this method (write a UIImage to disk) [closed]
So I have this method in a class which writes an image to disk. How can I unit test it?
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Unit Testing Bejeweled Wilds
I created a pretty complex algorithm for calculating matches on a Bejeweled board that kept track of matches involving wilds. After doing some in-game testing, I found quite a few bugs that needed to ...
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Stack data structure unit testing
I have this contract:
public interface Stack<T> {
void push(T object);
T pop();
int size();
}
I am curious what you think about my test of the ...
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Calculating Euclidean distance and performing unit-testing
The method creates a link, an edge between two nodes, and calculates the Euclidean distance.
I'm testing that after linking, the link does indeed exist, and that the distance is correct.
I've used ...
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Require config file in class
I want to use the variables that have been declared in a config.php file in a class for testing. I am not sure if this is the right way like I have done it.
I have a configuration file, config.php:
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New to code reviews. How to approach from a software test engineer perspective? [migrated]
I may be expected to perform code reviews in what'll likely be Java. The thing is, I'm a software test engineer. I've never been a developer nor programmer. I've always thought another developer would ...
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TDD and use case: cook dish with substitutions
This is code for a class that takes available ingredients and returns left over ingredients after making a dish.
Cesars: 2 carrot 4 ice burg 1 chicken 1 beans
Russian: 2 carrots 2 beans 2 chicken
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UnitTesting: Is this TestCase overkill?
Is this Test Case overkill?
I am new to Unit Testing so I am learning and I'd love to hear your opinion about it.
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Designing entities, use cases and repository
I'm developing an Android application which would remotely connect to an insurance database and perform some basic CRUD operations and I'd like to learn how to keep clean app's architecture from ...
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Mucheck - a mutation analysis tool for Haskell programs
We have been working on a mutation analysis tool for Haskell tests called MuCheck. It accepts any Haskell source file, and a function name to mutate, applies a defined set of mutation operators on it, ...
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Credit card checking
I am practicing test-driven development in Python. Feedback about both the tests and the code is appreciated. I'm using luhn algorithm and regex to check credit card numbers for validity.
Here are ...
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Test many sorting algorithms using Python and Nose
I'm trying to learn how to build a good test suite, using simple sorting as an example.
Particularly, I am using Nose to generate all the tests based on a simple list of lists, where each sublist is a ...
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Filtering with multiple inclusion and exclusion patterns
I have a requirement to be able to filter a list of strings by both inclusion and exclusion patterns (using fnmatch-style wildcards), of which there can be many.
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Karate Chop Kata
I had some time to kill today, and I found the Karate Chop Kata.
Specification:
Write a binary chop method that takes an integer search target and a sorted array of integers. It should ...
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Even more extensible and testable BuzzFizz
Inspired by Extensible and testable FizzBuzz I have decided to write my own implementation, partially based on my own answer and on the other answers.
First a warning to all of you: Never make such ...
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Extensible and testable FizzBuzz
There seem no end to fizzbuzz implementations.
Something I rarely see is an implementation that's easy to extend with more name-divisor pairs.
Another thing that usually annoys me is the lack of ...
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Playing with strings
I wanted to dust off my C skills, so I decided to write a couple string manipulation functions.
I aimed for simplicity and safety. Performance was not a concern.
Please be a thorough as you like. C ...
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Filesystem-dependant unit-testing in go
I recently rewrote a piece of software to practice unit-testing. I decided to constrain myself and do dependency-free code, so I can do better and easier tests. I came to the following solution while ...
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Addressing possible strategic problems with LDAP module and unit testing code
I'm a sysadmin writing a tool to perform administrative tasks on our upcoming new account management system that runs over LDAP. I want the tool to be highly flexible, configurable, and reliable, so ...
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Testable authentication handler for web API
I need to unit test my authentication handler. I don't really want do an assert against the text message returned by the handler. How could this be improved ?
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Testing with multiple input datasets and expectations
I wanted to make 3 test suites where each would run a test class with a specific input. I figured that in order to do this I could:
Make an abstract test suite with all the variable parts (...
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Customer contact unit-testing
I'm dealing with a damn scary function which I would wish to refactor so I could unit test it properly and improve the design. I will try to explain what it does and how it works in detail (with ...
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Prefer simplicity over testability? [closed]
Currently I try to create some unit tests for a project, which provides access to some webservice methods.
It's interface is rather simple. I have a class "WebService" which offers methods like ...
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Pure fixed length queue
I am modeling an infectious disease with a fixed incubation period. I chose a queue to keep track of when people become symptomatic. I imagined using some operations like so:
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Motor degree movement function
I want to control a motor which rotates a device over a gear.
Input values for the device are from 0 to 360 degrees. The motor should always rotate the device the shorter way around. For example, if ...
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Is monkeypatching __builtin__ in tests like this an absurdly complicated practice?
My hunch: Probably.
I'm testing a little magic behaviour of my script that automatically reads from ~/.ghtoken to do automagic authentication on GitHub API ...
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Rename files to titlecased
I wrote this Python script to rename specified files to "titlecase", for example:
hello.txt to Hello.txt
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Jasmine Unit tests for simple toggle class
Using Javascript/jQuery I created simple toggle and started writing unit tests for it using Jasmine. Am not sure however if I should be testing for things like e.g. ...
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The stripping extensions
In order to make my life easier with parsing some VBA code, I have written a few extension methods to extend the string type, and put them in this ...
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Unit Testing for a Complex Game
I have known about unit testing for a while now, but I am just now finally understanding how to implement it. I think that my initial implementation is a little rough so I could use some feedback.
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Minimal C++ Unit Test Framework
I've written a minimal unit test framework. The goal was to allow assertions of booleans, for equality and catched exceptions. Two things are bugging the most. That assertions have to rely on macros ...
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Add existing models to a relation using nested attributes
I needed to add existing models to a has-many relation using nested attributes so I overwrote thumbnails_attributes=:
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(Yet Another) Conway's Game of Life in Haskell (Naive)
I code Haskell as a hobbyist. I'm interested in feedback on my naive implementation of Conway's Game of Life. Specifically, as stated in the Quick Tour of the website, I am interested in:
Best ...
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Laravel Testing: Is this testing too much of the inner workings?
So I'm using laravel for a project and have a InvoiceRepository and a InvoiceRepositoryTest and I have written the test first ...
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Mixing Watir::Browser into RSpec
In my previous Watir question I was making a module with session_FF accepting a block.
Now I want to make the same but via RSpec. Here is my try:
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Sum of numbers which are not sum of two abundant numbers
The following program is a solution to Project Euler Problem 23. That problem defines an abundant number to be one whose sum of proper divisors is greater than it, tells us that all integers at least ...
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Unit testing annotation processors in Java
I'm working on a micro-benchmarking framework in Java.
To give you some context, this is how it will work:
Given multiple implementations of some algorithm, and you want to compare which one ...
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Orange Tree simulator
I'm practicing SOLID principles and the concept of making a clear distinction between an object's private and public interfaces.
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Isolating testable portions in rendered html, without imposing on content or formatting
I'm unit testing some webpages and I'm trying to figure out how to best isolate the portions that need to be tested. There are two goals: Don't impose on the webpage's content or format, and be as ...
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Testing after_save hooks in Rails 4.2 with MiniTest
I've recently started working on a new application in Rails 4.2.0-beta2. I've been using this as an opportunity to learn more about MiniTest, with a stretch goal of being as strict with myself with ...
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Unit testing a bash script manipulating the working directory path
bd is a bash script to conveniently jump multiple directory levels up from the current working directory instead of a tedious and possibly inaccurate ...
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Unittests for CashFlow object
I'm just writing a small unittest to test for a hypothetical library and object, as a way of predefining the behavior, perhaps both as an acceptance test and for unittesting as well. As I'm writing ...
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How to write unit test cases for any real time Java app? [closed]
With lack of real time experience in developing a Java application, I would like to understand the testing strategy for any written module made of multiple classes. Below is the sample application ...
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Dependency Injection into an Abstract Class
Me and another developer have recently forked and taken over an abandoned, open-source project. I have also been reading articles and watching videos by Misko Hevery.
When I was reading through the ...
