Everyday Unit Testing

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Introduction

1. Why Another Unit Testing Book?
2. Testing Is A Mindset
3. A Bit Of History…

Testing Economics

1. Selling Unit Testing
2. The Deceptive Cost of Writing Tests
3. The Actual Cost of Tests
4. The Real Time Sink
5. Unit vs. Integration Tests
6. Risk And Reward
7. Maintenance Costs
8. Triangulation

Organization Strategy

1. The Stairs
2. The Hump
3. The Death Spiral Of Slow Tests
4. The Mocking Trap
5. Reluctant Teams

The Tools

1. Test Frameworks
2. Mocking Frameworks
3. Refactoring Tools
4. Source Control
5. Continuous Integration Tools
6. Summary

Test Attributes

1. Validity
2. Readability
3. Speed
4. Accuracy
5. Differentiation
6. Maintenance
7. Deterministic
8. Footprint
9. Isolation
10. Truthiness

Testing Strategy

1. Step 1: Understanding the problem.
2. Step 2: Designing a solution.
3. Step 3: Test categorization
4. Step 4: Testability design considerations
5. Step 5: Identify design constraints
6. Step 6: Prepare existing code
7. Step 7: Write the tests.
8. Step 8: Review
9. Step 9: Knowledge sharing

Writing Tests

1. Testability and Good Design
2. Should We Write That Test?
3. What Bug Will It Find?
4. Testing error handling and exceptions
5. Multiple Asserts: Yea or Nay?
6. Anti patterns

From Legacy Code To Testable Code

1. Improve Understanding
2. Improving Accessibility
3. Removing dependencies
4. Simplification

TDD

1. Deceptively Simple
2. The #1 Benefit of TDD
3. Introducing TDD
4. Emergent Design
5. TDD In Real Life
6. Step 2 - Define the acceptance criteria
7. Step 3 - Identify the main components that the stories flow through
8. Step 4 - Re-prioritize the stories
9. Step 5 - Component design decisions
10. Step 6 - Interface design decisions
11. Step 7 - Write the code
12. Step 8 - Integrate continuously
13. Step 9 - Complete the story and move to the next

Conclusion