Questions tagged [unit-testing]
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 do you push Design changes in TDD in late development stage
I was recently part of a TDD development team. At certain point I realized that there is a design mistake instead of Object Oriented Design and Structural design the problems were solved via statuses. ...
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Canonical Logs as a method for system verifiability [closed]
I am developing a work flow to use canonical log files to verify the behavior of a system from a unit test (and possibly integration test) standpoint. It seems like such a pattern doesn't exist ...
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Is there a logical complexity beyond which TDD doesn't work?
All the books which talk about test-driven development (TDD) illustrate it with only very basic examples, less than 100 LOC.
The algorithms I wrote using TDD were larger, but still relatively small in ...
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How would you test a lexer?
I'm wondering how to effectively test a lexer (tokenizer).
The number of combinations of tokens in a source file can be huge, and the only way I've found is to make a batch of representative source ...
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How to model and unit test code with multiple side effects?
How to unit test code that requires multiple side effects?
For example, making an invoice. Simple action requires few thing to happen simultaneously:
create invoice in db
send invoice to backend
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C# - Menu Implementation - Help writing it in a testable way
The Question:
I'm developing an app in C# and am currently designing a menu which contains submenus and needs to be different depending on the category of the user.
I've written the code but am ...
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Negative unit testing
Let's say I have a class like this:
public class Validator {
private HashSet<byte> _validFlags;
public Validator()
{
_validFlags = new HashSet<byte&...
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Why Golang projects seldom use mocking library in testing?
New to golang and is now researching on how to do test in golang. I see that there are popular mocking library like gomock. However, at the same time, I see that large golang open source projects don'...
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How to Unit test / design differently a complicated free function
I have written a Command Line Interface, where the user has to construct an object basically by providing input to a bunch of questions. I have a hard time testing these functions as there is too much ...
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How to write the test for a class function which depends on another function to be tested in TDD approach?
I have a class
class A {
List<int> a;
A() {
this.a = [];
}
void add(int x) {
a.append(x)
}
List<int> display() {
return a;
}
}
This is a simple class I want to ...
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Unit testing a generic method not caring about the generic type
I have the following code
public class MyCollection<T>
{
public void Add(T obj) { ... }
public int Count { get; }
}
and the following unit test to check whether Add increases the Count ...
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Using a bulletin board to support Separation Of Concerns
Context:
I'm working on an embedded system with many small functional modules. The business logic within each module is made as simple as possible, but those modules generally need to gather bits of ...
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How to unit test a public method that calls a private method [duplicate]
Here is a very basic example to illustrate my point
class SomeClass {
publicMethod1(param1, param2) {
if (param1 === "some value") {
// do stuff
} else {
...
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What if integration testing makes more sense than unit testing for a certain method?
I don't want to spam you with a ton of code, but please have a quick look at this boiler-plate method:
In this scenario let's say I have a ProcessingText.py file (class) that I finished its unit ...
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Can TDD and White-box testing be combined directly?
I am getting started with software testing in Java and was wondering if test-driven dev and white-box testing could be combined directly... If not, what ways can we extend TDD to combine white box ...
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Where to put data generating functions for unit tests
I am writing a unit-test framework (for Matlab/Octave, but that does not matter) which also supports property based testing. Thus, I need some functions which generate random data which are tailored ...
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How to cover by tests HTTP API wrapping library
As mentioned in title, I don't understand how I supposed to cover by tests code which is just wrap http api.
I guess I can write only unit tests, because wrapped service is paid. Integration tests in ...
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Is there a pattern for unit/integration testing where tests that are higher level are intended to act as “gates” for other more specific tests?
The motivating concept here is that the fewer tests you have, the faster your test suite runs. This kinda feels like I'm basically describing smoke tests, but I think smoke tests and other tests are ...
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Logic in data provider vs test body
Lets say we have a class Cat:
class Cat{
public eat(String food){
if (food.contains("cat")){
burp();
}
}
private burp(){
System.out.println(&...
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Properly testing UI presenters without duplicating tests of subcomponents
I am writing the embedded firmware for an effect pedal. The pedal's ui consists of a few knobs
a few buttons and a few leds and it consists of various control modes each corresponding to a seperate ...
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Why is automatically generating automated tests frowned upon?
First, the most obvious grouse someone has against this I can think of is the intricacies of an actual method. It's not enough to merely ensure no errors are thrown. Functions usually contain ...
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Providing same API implemented in multiple languages
Our budding (currently internal) API deals with building information models, originates in our main application written in c++.
There is a small implementation of it in C# for easy interop with other ...
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What would be a better approach to write methods which returns several different string outputs?
I have some code similar to shared below, which returns different kinds of response messages to the caller. If the return value is empty string, the process is continued. If a message is returned it ...
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How to write unit tests for REST API that are atomic?
I am writing a REST API for use by the front-end web and mobile frameworks. Naturally, I write unit tests for each endpoint, which makes developing, evolving, and maintaining the API easier. However, ...
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Java: Splitting a large unit test class
The project (Java/Spring) I currently work on has a rather large unit-test class for one of its services : more than 1000 lines, several Nested class (one per big functionality), some tests without a ...
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Unit testing multiple features in one test
I'm writing a small utility class to create an abstraction for addEventListener (JavaScript/DOM)
Let's say I have to test for these features:
Single event target with a single event
Multiple events
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Doesn't “Always test through the public interface” contradict testing of individual composed functions?
I'm currently reading "Composing Software" by Eric Elliott, which is about functional programming in JavaScript. He states that if you compose multiple functions together, and that these ...
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Should methods with business logic be made private? [duplicate]
So I am writing a project using Spring Boot. All of my logic resides in @Service classes. I have separated each service class based on entity. For example - If I have two independent entities A and B, ...
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Testing a React component which receives a function as a prop
Suppose there's a root <App /> which houses multiple components, one of them being, say <SearchBox />.
App component houses the app state (such as searchResults array) and iterates the ...
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If two individual branches pass unit tests, once they're merged, is the result also guaranteed to pass unit tests?
Suppose we have two branches A and B which have been forked from master.
Both branches A and B make some changes and implement some unit tests. They pass all current and new tests, then are merged ...
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Unit testing a function that composes filters
Imagine there is a number of filter functions that all perform filtering of items in a list based on different criteria. Say there are 5 such filter functions. All unit tested
Now imagine there is ...
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Should Unit Tests share the Same Data set?
We are writing application service tests across our Data Service Class.
Currently writing tests liking add Product, remove Product, check for inventory after sale, etc.
They are all using the same ...
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Should I mock ObjectMapper in my unit tests?
I have different services in a spring application that have a dependency on Jackson ObjectMapper, the unit tests rely on @InjectMocks to inject all the various dependencies to the class that is under ...
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Unit Testing Private Function Through Public Interface
Am new to unit testing, and I have been struggling with the right approach to test private functions. I have done my research, and am going with testing through the public interface.
My problem is the ...
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Draw Data Flow Graph with Constructor and Functions
I am new to software testing and would like to know whether it's appropriate to draw a data flow graph that flows from initiation of variables to constructor and method.
Is there something wrong with ...
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Should I stub hidden dependencies in Python unit tests
Python is very specific language which gives developer huge flexibility.
So if I have class like this:
class Car:
def __init__(self, engine: Engine):
self._engine = engine # dependency ...
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C++ Organizing classes for easy unit testing (but with some restrictions)
Mild pickle. I have a project which has components that are difficult to test/mock. It might look something like this:
class Contenxt;
class Server : public SomeOtherClass
{
public:
ServerPlugin(...
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How deep should I mock dependencies in unit tests
Consider the following function:
def get_api_status(api_client):
response = api_client.get('/status/')
return response.content
and the test for it:
def test_get_api_status():
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Migrating legacy code with singletons to Dependency injection
I'm working on a larger, older project. Our code is littered with classical singletons, i.e. classes like
public class ABCService {
private static final instance = new ABCService();
public ...
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Unit-testing and mocking
There seems to be a lot of question regarding "when to mock". But I did not get an answer on my question so far. It can be, I do not know a specific search request that would point me to the ...
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Test to check that executing a function does not raise an exception
I have the following function:
def create_dic():
key_list = ['a','b']
val_list = [1, 2]
dic = {}
for i in range(2):
dic[key_list[i]] = val_list[i]
return dic
I ...
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Should unit tests contain print statements?
I am running unit tests written by someone else, and the output is littered with print statements. I know libraries are not supposed to contain print statements, but is it bad practice for tests to ...
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What is the correct way to unit test methods that mix dependencies and business logic?
I'm struggling to come to a consensus on the right approach that can be used somewhat consistently to balance integration and unit testing.
Take the following method, that is extremely common to find ...
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Benefits of Dynamic Mocks over Static Mocks?
I'm not sure if static vs. dynamic mock is the terminology used to describe this comparison, but I got this terminology from types of mocking static vs dynamic and Hand-rolled mocks made easy. To ...
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How to not violate the single responsibility principle?
Let's say I'm writing a class that tracks a single stock ticker. In this simplified example, the StockTracker class holds a string that tells me the trend direction and a variable window that holds x ...
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How to create input data for unit tests for an API client?
I am building the initial set of unit tests for my team's legacy API client system. We have been writing integration tests, but have no unit tests.
It's a Sinatra server that accepts requests from our ...
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Refactor unit tests?
When we work with legacy code and need to do changes, we first write tests on the current behavior. That way we can implement new changes with confidence. We can even refactor the code.
Legacy code is ...
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In unit testing should I check if a method is being called or just check the result?
Suppose I have similar function:
Helper2 helper2;
public void myFunc(Helper helper)
{
if (....)
helper.mySecondFunc();
else
helper2.myThirdFunc();
}
In my unit test should I ...
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Should branching of functions be tested if not part of the contract?
Let's assume I have a method that performs an internal operation just the first time it gets called, e.g.:
class Foo {
constructor() {
this._unlocked = false;
this._data = null;
}
bar() {...
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Unit testing private methods
preface: I know this topic has been asked about a lot on here in the past. Hopefully I will make it clear that I've read a fair amount of the questions/answers on the topic, and other literature, too. ...
