Those that know me are aware that I am somewhat of a testing nazi, insisting things are done "The Right Way" and always trying to push my testing knowledge to the limit. Coupled with my many years of experience, I have a lot to say on the matter. Over the next few months I plan on telling you all about what I've learned during this time. I have made many mistakes over the years, and I see these mistakes being made repeatedly by other people, mistakes that lead to brittle, unmaintainable tests which suck to work with.
In the meantime, I'm presenting "I Hate Writing Unit Tests, How Come Everyone Else Enjoys It?" at Devoxx UK at the end of March. If you find writing tests painful, time consuming or you just don't see how you can write clean, maintainable unit tests - come along, hopefully you'll learn something! I'll be covering:
- Test naming
- How to verify your tests
- What you should/shouldn't be testing
- Removing duplication
- Test isolation
- Mocks vs Fakes and when to use one over the other
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