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Are Your Tests Really Helping You?

by LB Denker on Oct 09, 2011

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Warning: This is advanced content. Prior knowledge of PHPUnit and functional testing are required.

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  • elblinkin LB Denker , Anthropologist of Developer Culture at Etsy, Inc. Look at my blog for more details: http://elblinkin.info 7 months ago Reply
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  • elblinkin LB Denker , Anthropologist of Developer Culture at Etsy, Inc. Private methods can grow logic. Also, there are two better alternatives. First you can copy/paste and that will make your tests more readable up front, instead of scrolling back and forth through code to read the test; however, if you find you are copy/pasting a lot of lines, then that is a smell indicating that you should extract to the method to a helper class in your test framework/extension code so that it can be tested. The second could also be a smell indicating that your api is not appropriate in that it requires a lot of context to work and thus is not encapsulated properly. 7 months ago Reply
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  • zsolttakacs Zsolt Takács i don’t understand why it’s good to eliminate private methods from test classes. it’ll either lead to duplication or very specific test utility classes. I’ve found them really useful, and several patterns use them in Xunit Test Patterns, for example: http://xunitpatterns.com/Test%20Utility%20Method.html 7 months ago Reply
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