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 can the `log` function be used for formal verification
In JavaScript I want to create a log function:
function log(string) {
console.log(string)
}
Obviously this causes side effects; it prints to the screen. And I have no control over its ...
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Spring Boot Controller Unit Test Strategy
All of the controllers in our project are as dumb as we can make them. Rightfully so, they simply validate the incoming payload, hand the request over to a service layer, and return whatever response ...
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Is checking for unexpected types in dynamic languages in an untyped project necessary?
In statically typed languages or dynamically typed languages that use a type checking system you can guarantee that the input type is the type that you specified in the contract.
However, in ...
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Is there a best practice for storing certificates (e.g. x509), which include private keys, used in unit tests?
In a software library, I wrote, large parts of the code use x509 certificates for various puprposes like signing documents digitally.
Is there a best practice for storing test certificates used for ...
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Using catch1.x with MFC GUI [closed]
I've recently started using catch1.x in a few minimal win32 console applications.
I want to scale up to wrapping large (2000 DLLs) legacy MFC GUI applications in tests in order to make significant ...
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What should I test with unit tests for data access layer? (MongoDB)
I'm working in TDD for my data access layer in MongoDB and I don't know what should I test?
I think that I shouldn't test if the queries return what they have to return because It's a MongoDB concern....
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Should I Have One Interface Per Class For Unit Testing?
Should I define an interface for every public behavior class (excluding data classes)?
I've spent many hours searching and reading to find a clear answer. If I search "Do you define an interface for ...
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Unit/Component testing using In Memory DB
I am writing Unit/Component test using In Memory DB. When I write Unit/Component test, I came across with the following question.
I have the following two BL methods.
ToCreate
ToGet
So when I ...
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Unit testing abstract classes with Google mock (gmock/gtest) (C++)
I want to test an abstract class with:
Pure virtual methods that should be overridden in sub-classes
Non-pure virtual methods that use the pure virtual methods (as opposed to this question)
class Fu
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Unit testing C++ in XCode
I'm working on a plugin for some drafting software. The plugin takes the form of a dynamically loaded mach-o bundle.
The software vendor provides a template plugin in the form of an XCode project.
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xUnit Should I Test Method Internal Work Or Only Result?
Let's take this unit test. Unit testing guidelines state that I should only have 1 assert per test, unless I'm testing the state of an object. In this case, Muxer.Muxe is a wrapper around FFMPEG that ...
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What in practical-stupid-childish terms a mutation testing indicates?
Whlist browsing on github I came across the following project: https://github.com/infection/infection and according to the project's website https://infection.github.io/guide/#What-is-Mutation-Testing ...
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Calling functions to setup state before testing a related function
I believe the consensus on unit tests is that each individual test should interact with the smallest surface possible (?).
I have a function I want to test, but it depends on some setup performed by ...
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Is is worth the time to create a list of manual regression tests for a legacy application?
I am part of a new dev team that is assigned to work on a legacy app. The app currently has no regression or automated unit, integration and system tests.
Due to technical debt and convoluted ...
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How to organize my test functions? (Part II: Keepin' it classy)
What are the best practices to organize your unit tests in classes?
I see different possibilities:
1) One would be to write one "container" class for each function you want test and then ...
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Should I create a shared Test Initilization object to initialize multiple test classes?
Scenario
I'm a new developer, using MSTest and I've encountered the following issue:
SomeClassTest // Uses a Fake Widget Controller.
Test Initialize
{
Many lines of code to initialize Fake ...
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Rerun unit tests affected by change [closed]
Let's say we have a code base covered with big enough amount of unit tests. We make small change to the code and want to check if tests are still passing. Wouldn't it be great to be able to rerun just ...
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Should we design our code from the beginning to enable unit testing?
There's a debate going on in our team at the moment as to whether modifying code design to allow unit testing is a code smell, or to what extent it can be done without being a code smell. This has ...
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Should I run my tests against production build transforms (i.e. Babel)?
A coworker of mine recently setup testing in a new project (a JS library) where a transform step hooks in to the babel config for Webpack in the production config.
For reference, this is the setting ...
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Unit testing about API endpoints and parameters
Consider a simple web application, I'll use a Python(ish) example, but i think the question is relevant for other languages as well.
The user is trying to fetch a page, and in order to render that ...
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Is QA/QC more related to proprietary softwares?
I'm not a software engineer, but I like coding for myself. Thus, I don't know what goes in IT companies.
Keeping the amount I spend on GitHub, I never heard of the term QA/QC in regards to open ...
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Unit and integration testing of microservice architecture
I am investigating how to test a project. Some information about the project:
Microservice architecture, with roughly 20 services. About 10 of them
with a separate database.
We use ServiceFabric
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Should my classes have separate constructors just for unit testing?
I like to write classes with two constructors: a primary constructor used in production code, and a default constructor just for unit tests. I do this because the the primary constructor creates other ...
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Unit testing for a method in a class which uses constructor DI (prism)
I have a class that uses constructor DI for IEventAggregator
public SomeViewModel(IEventAggregator eventAggregator)
{
this.eventAggregator = eventAggregator;
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How to name and organize unit tests with combinations of multiple parameters?
I am new to unit testing, but finally getting started.
I have been running into a situation where my unit test names apparently grow too long to readable due to the multiple parameters and ...
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Unit Tests - correct approach to test system with multiple layers
I'm wondering about Unit Tests. Let say i got a code ( in C#, but language is not important here):
public class SOT: ISOT
{
List<string> _internalCollection = new List<string>();
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What is a common name for a module being tested?
When writing unit tests, I want to reduce the cognitive load of the reader as much as possible. One thing I've noticed that bothers me is that the variable names of the thing that is being tested are ...
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How to identify test cases?
I wrote a small INI file parser as a library which I want to use in a bigger project. Following good practice I decided I should write test cases, too. But I fail to find a good start.
The library is ...
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Should linters no-magic-numbers rule used in testing?
So I am just starting to use a linter and I like the no-magic-numbers rule in generally. But in unit test files it is giving me 1000 warnings. Here is what they look like:
it('getWeekNumber', ...
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Testing database insertion, removal, and modification from program code (i.e., rather than test code)
I want to ensure that my program code is correctly inserting, removing, and modifying data in my database. Full integration testing can be slow, and I have concerns about keeping mock objects and data ...
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Where do you put tests that are not unit tests in a Maven project?
I'm building a Spark-based, text analysis package using both Java and Scala. I have a series of transform functions, which take in one dataframe and spit out another, and that can be chained together ...
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Is a Unit test considered brittle if it fails when the business logic changes?
Please see the code below; it tests to see if a person with Gender of female is eligible for offer1:
[Fact]
public void ReturnsFalseWhenGivenAPersonWithAGenderOfFemale()
{
var personId = Guid....
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How to track C++ class traits?
As a fan of regular types and value semantics, I'm keen on classes becoming more regular and being non-polymorphic. As a fan of non-throwing operations, I'm keen on operations being noexcept. I also ...
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How to test an API that can change the response during time?
I currently use the Google trends API and I implemented a class to integrate with its services.
As you probably know, Google trends tracks statistics which will change over time.
So, when I write ...
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refactoring function to have a robust design
i am having a simple app example here:
say i have this piece of code which handles requests from user to get a list of books stored in a database.
from .handlers import all_books
from flask import ...
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Should log statements be tested?
When writing tests I usually ignored logging statements, but now I wonder if it was right.
The logs are often important tools when diagnosing production issues, moreover there can even be ...
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How to organize my test functions?
I'm writing a software application of a few thousand lines of code (in Python), and in order to keep the whole thing together, slowly but certainly the need for unit tests (and later, other types of ...
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Unit test which asserts that current thread is the main thread
The question is does it make sense to write a unit test which asserts that the current thread is the main thread? Pros/cons?
Recently I've seen the unit test which asserts the current thread for the ...
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Unit testing protected methods which have no reason to be public
I need to make a sponsorship system with complex business requirements. Basically, after a user makes a payment, the system should get triggered. There are many different types of sponsoring, so I ...
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What's the purpose of xfail tests?
Some test frameworks, notably DejaGnu and py.test, have an "XFAIL" flag/status for a test which says that this test is expected to fail. If the test succeeds, it's marked as "XPASS" (unexpected pass).
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Testing - concise mocks vs asserting received calls
Let's say we have this method:
string Add(int a, int b) {
var sum = _calculator.Add(a,b);
var response = _formatter.Format(sum);
return response;
}
Now I want to unit-test this method. ...
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How to structure a set of classes that deal with external APIs for maximum testability?
I'm developing a set of classes designed to communicate with external APIs, and I'm running into trouble with how to properly structure everything for proper loose coupling and unit testing.
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How to engineer and test mission critical software?
TL;DR:
My goal is to create some framework with which I could discover/test all possible internal states of my application so that I would approach with confidence for example engineering software for ...
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What is recommended way to create test data for unit test cases?
I am new to TDD/unit testing.
I am going to write a complex scheduling algorithm in Java. As this module is a core part of our application and there are number of scenarios in it, I want to write ...
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Peer review of unit test
What is a good strategy for Q/A Engineers peer reviewing Unit tests as part of the software development life cycle?
I think that there are, indeed, things that I should check regarding the unit test ...
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How to write unit tests for my project
I'm relatively new to programming and have never written tests. I want to write unit tests for a group project (Angular web app with node background environment written in typescript), which you can ...
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How exactly should unit tests be written without mocking extensively?
As I understand, the point of unit tests is to test units of code in isolation. This means, that:
They should not break by any unrelated code change elsewhere in the codebase.
Only one unit test ...
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Best practices on unit tests for consecutive functions
Let's say we have function A and function B which perform consecutive operations on some data, with B never receiving the data before A processes it.
Function A makes exhaustive checks on potential ...
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Is it a good idea to write all possible test cases after transforming the team to TDD to achieve a full coverage?
Assume we have a large enterprise-level application without any unit/functional tests. There was no test-driven development process during the development due to very tight deadlines (I know we should ...
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Naming conventions for .net C# Unit test projects for better sorting [closed]
I currently use the following naming scheme for my unit test projects.. if I have a project "MyApp", I will have..
-- MyApp
-- MyApp.Tests
I see this is quite a common practice.
Now, the problem is,...
