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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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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Is there a term for a catalog of fakes, mocks and stubs that are preconfigured?
Let's say I have a user object... and there are a certain subsection of tests that always for example, want an "admin user" and others want "moderation users"
... or we want users with unicode names ...
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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,...
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Unit Testability of Builder pattern
I'm looking at the builder pattern for helping setting up dependencies and parameters that may require complex logic for a class. But from the examples I've seen, the builder pattern does not seem ...
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How can I unit test this code [closed]
How can I unit test a codebase which contains classes that includes two or three methods. In general these methods are too long. The methods contain lots of tasks like filtering datasets and a ...
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Understanding property based testing
I'm reading about property based testing and I'm wondering how can I test this my code using that paradigm.
class Invoice {
private final String id;
private final String companyName;
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DRY TDD + unit testing
Where/how do you draw the line for unit-testing classes at different levels of a hierarchy? For example, let's say you have a structure like this:
public class Account
{
public Money ...
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How to unit test device driver initialization?
I am writing an IMU device driver in C using test-driven development methodology. As part of the driver, I pass a struct with user selected configuration settings to an initialization function which ...
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Wrapping utility classes and injecting them for unit testing purposes
I found that it is so hard to test classes that depend on other utility classes
as java.nio.file.Files. It is also impossible to mock them using the classic unit testing stack (junit,mockito,..) ...
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Unit testing similar wrappers - or single unit test is enough?
I'm working on a service which has a lots of dependencies. The way how I call them is I'm wrapping each service client around an Adapter. Like this (I'm using Java):
public abstract class AdapterBase&...
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Creating new constructors to overwrite the existing instance variables for testing purpose
Is it good/bad practice to add more constructors just for test purposes (to mock the DOCs used in my SUT) like this :
public class A {
private B b = new B();
private C c = new C();
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NUnit specify TestCaseAttribute on implementation or create a test method
Based on this question about the correct usage of nUnit's TestCaseAttribute, I was wondering whether to specify the test case directly on the implementation or create test methods (as when using ...
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Refactoring - is it appropriate to simply rewrite code, as long as all tests pass?
I recently watched "All the Little Things" from RailsConf 2014. During this talk, Sandi Metz refactors a function that includes a large nested if-statement:
def tick
if @name != 'Aged Brie' &&...
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Unit tests involving library functions and objects
I am making a project using the Laravel framework.
I plan to create unit tests for my project. But I feel I don't really have an idea what to test because I mostly use library or framework functions. ...
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What exactly caused the recent increase in automated testing?
Recently I've heard a lot about automating test is taking away manual jobs from the QA sector.
When I look at example of what it is about most of it is just running a sequence of functions over and ...
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“Syncing” unit-tests for different layers
Consider unit tests for two (or more) consequent layers in web-application, backend, eg views (these are concerned with parsing form parameters, rendering the response) and actions (application logic)....
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What relates to unit testing as requirements relate to system testing?
In system testing, a software system is tested against requirements.
In unit testing, a software module is tested against the internal requirements for this module which depend on the specific ...
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Why is unit testing private methods considered as bad practice?
Context:
I am currently working on a small project in Python. I commonly structure my classes with some public methods that are documented but mainly deal with the high level concepts (what a user of ...
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Is it good design to provide interfaces in a library that would only be used for unit testing?
Contrapositive-ish question: What is the design reason a library class would not implement an interface as a convenience to the developer? (e.g. the .Net library class FileInfo)
The FileInfo class ...
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REPL-based Workflow and Unit Testing
As a developer who has primarily been doing functional programming in F# for the last several years, I'm very attached to my REPL and use it run my code as I go, testing and refining each function as ...
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Are unit tests needed for a function that only calls another function?
Assuming OldModule.oldFunc, if we want to move oldFunc to NewModule and, for backward compatibility, keep oldFunc there merely calling NewModule.newFunc by passing the exact same arguments and doing ...
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MVP Passive View -> Dependency Injection -> Factory Pattern -> Is testing behaviour whilst ignoring state enough?
I am writing an application using the Model/View/Presenter passive view pattern.
I have view that contains multiple items in a list. My model is of type AudioDrama. For filtering that list I have ...
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How do you write unit tests for code with difficult to predict results?
I frequently work with very numeric / mathematical programs, where the exact result of a function is difficult to predict in advance.
In trying to apply TDD with this kind of code, I often find ...
