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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How can CI be used for interpreted languages?
I have never used a Continuous Integration system (CI) before. I primarily code in MATLAB, Python or PHP. Neither of these have a build step and I do not see how a CI could be used for my work. A ...
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Verbosity of unit testing in untyped languages
I'm asking myself how verbose I should be when unit testing projects written in untyped languages like Javascript.
Let's take an example for a strongly typed language (C#)
public bool Foo(MyClass ...
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How should the code for a program outputting to command line be tested/designed?
Imagine a program similar to this in Python:
import subprocess
class Example():
_cmd_args = (['ls', '-a', '/usr/bin/'], ['ls', '-al', '/usr/local/bin/'])
_default_args = 0
def ...
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Dynamic things to test, does it make sense?
I wrote like seven tests for testing if our network topology was working fine. Each one in a file, so I had test1, test2, test3...
However, right now my boss is asking me for something more dynamic, ...
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What to unit-test when loading a dll?
I wrote a wrapper class that is using a dll. I have a LoadLibrary() function and have wrapped all the functions the dll exports (to match my error codes).
I am not too familiar with unit testing.
I ...
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Is there any value in asserting values prior to acting in unit tests?
Here's a silly psuedo-object to illustrate the point:
public class Testing
{
public object MyUnderlyingObject = new object { Property = 44 };
public MyPropertyWrapper
{
get
...
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Respectable design pattern for making node modules flexible/testable?
I am looking to get some input from some more experienced testers than what I am. :)
I am trying to make my node modules testable, allowing for dependency spying/stubbing/mocking without the need to ...
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Unit Testing and 3rd party packages. Do I mock or not?
I'm just getting used to unit testing and on my new project I decided to adopt a TDD approach.
My code below is to test the UserServices class which is responsible for creating a user, deleting a ...
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Where do you put your profiling code?
I just developed an algorithm and additional to the usual unit tests I wrote a profiling "test" that I was using to measure and optimize its performance. It is structured similar to a test (arrange: ...
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Running unit tests for an Azure solution built by TeamCity
We have a solution containing a Web Role and Worker Role. This is built by TeamCity and deployed by Octopus Deploy to a Microsoft Azure environment. The solution contains unit test assemblies (MSTest) ...
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Should a Junior programmer add TDD tests to mvc project
I'm a junior programmer near to my 6 month probation, following my initial career changing 3 month assignment in which I added TDD tests and wondering whether I should add tests to my current work. ...
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What is the most elemental workflow for TDD?
Gradle is such an interesting build tool that it prompted me to look at Spock and JUnit -- which I've never done before. What is the basic workflow with TDD?
My approach has been to do frequent ...
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Unit Testing Module-Internal Functions
I'm writing a simple whitebox unit testing suite for a project I'm working on in C. The project is broken into modules (each has a .c file with an associated .h file), and all modules are compiled ...
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When does it make sense to include test code in coverage?
Many coverage tools evaluate an entire project, including unit test code itself. In VS 2013, the Analyze Code Coverage/All Tests option includes test code in its report. OpenCover does so as well I ...
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What is it called when you test a microservice by mocking the dependencies?
I've a RESTFul microservice written in Grails. This microservice has it's own DB. It also depends on two other microservices.
A typical workflow of the service is:
Receives a GET request from a ...
