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Good Unit Tests Ask For Quality Code
The document discusses the importance of good unit tests for achieving quality code, defining a unit test as an automated check of a method or class's behavior. It outlines the properties of effective unit tests, such as being small, isolated, and easy to write, and highlights the role of stubs and mocks in managing dependencies. The document emphasizes that quality code results from applying good unit testing practices and design principles like low coupling and high coherence.
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- 1. Good Unit TestsAsk For Quality Code Florin Coros www.rabs.ro florin.coros@rabs.ro @florincoros www.florincoros.wordpress.com
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- 3. Agenda • Good UnitTests • Code Quality • How we get to code quality • Demo: writing good UT & improving the code
- 4. Defining GOOD UnitTests Definition: A unit test is an automated piece of code that invokes the method or class being tested and then checks some assumptions about the logical behavior of that method or class. A unit test is almost always written using a unit- testing framework. It’s fully automated, trustworthy, readable, and maintainable.
- 5. Properties of GOODUnit Tests It is very small It is automated and repeatable It can be written easily It runs quickly It’s readable, maintainable, trustwort hy and fully automated It should run in isolation It should test ONE thing If it fails you should know exactly where the bug is
- 6. Good Unit Tests- easy to write less than 5 minutes to implement few lines of code. Less than 10 -15 see from a glimpse what the test checks
- 7. Good Unit Tests- Run in Isolation Isolate the code under test from the rest of your system, by creating seams, to be able to plug fakes (stubs & mocks) which you can control in your test “There is no object-oriented problem that cannot be solved by adding a layer of indirection, except, of course, too many layers of indirection.”
- 8. Good Unit Test- test ONE thing Check only ONE thing in your tests. If the test fails you know exactly where the problem is. You do not need to do step-by-step debugging
- 9. Dependencies and Fakes Anexternal dependency is an object in your system that your code under test interacts with, and over which you have no control. (Common examples are file systems, threads, memory, time, and so on.) A stub is a controllable replacement for an existing dependency (or collaborator) in the system. By using a stub, you can test your code without dealing with the dependency directly. A mock object is a fake object in the system that decides whether the unit test has passed or failed. It does so by verifying whether the object under test interacted as expected with the fake object. There’s usually no more than one mock per test.
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- 11. It works. Don’ttouch it!
- 12. From Good UnitTests to Code Quality B C f() g() h() h’() Depend on abstractions not on implementation details (DIP) Use IoC for instantiating objects, or Factory design patterns Visible dependencies for our classes Low coupling and high coherence Extensibility, Reusability (OCP) Design Patterns Integration tests: HIGH COSTS & LOW BENEFITS
- 13. From Good UnitTests to Code Quality Screen Keyboard translate() write() read() Depend on abstractions not on implementation details (DIP) Use IoC for instantiating objects, or Factory design patterns Visible dependencies for our classes Low coupling and high coherence Extensibility, Reusability (OCP) Design Patterns Integration tests: HIGH COSTS & LOW BENEFITS
- 14. From Good UnitTests to Code Quality IText Output IText Input translate() write() read() Depend on abstractions not on implementation details (DIP) Use IoC for instantiating objects, or Factory design patterns Visible dependencies for our classes Low coupling and high coherence Extensibility, Reusability (OCP) Design Patterns Integration tests: HIGH COSTS & LOW BENEFITS
- 15. From Good UnitTests to Code Quality OOD Principles SOLID DRY IoC & DI LowCoupling High Coherence …..… Design Patterns Composite Chain Of Responsibility Decorator ……. Can you TEST it? Good Enough GOOD Unit Tests Small In Isolation Test ONE Thing Easy to implement Reusability Extensibility Maintainability
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Editor's Notes
- #3 My name is Florin CorosI live in ClujAnd I am under 35I like to go to ROCK concertsI like to travel with my girl-friendI like to play GO. GO is a game that thought me to look a few steps ahead, which turned to be very useful for me…I tweet quite a lotI am a Software Architect at ISDCI am a big fan of Uncle BobI am one of the cofounders of RABS
- #5 5’You need to make a clear distinction between an integration tests, and a unit testIt can be written easily and runs quickly.It’s fully automated, trustworthy, readable, and maintainable.Quality Attributes of Good Unit TestsReadableMaintainableTrustworthy
- #6 You need to make a clear distinction between an integration tests, and a unit testIt can be written easily and runs quickly.It’s fully automated, trustworthy, readable, and maintainable.Quality Attributes of Good Unit TestsReadableMaintainableTrustworthy
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- #8 Flying people into space presents interesting challenges to engineersand astronauts, one of the more difficult being how to make sure theastronaut is ready to go into space and operate all the machinery. A fullintegration test for a space shuttle would require being in space, and that’sobviously not a safe way to test astronauts. That’s why NASA has fullsimulators that mimic the surroundings of a space shuttle’s control deck,which removes the external dependency of having to be in outer space.
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- #10 You need to make a clear distinction between an integration tests, and a unit testIt can be written easily and runs quickly.It’s fully automated, trustworthy, readable, and maintainable.Quality Attributes of Good Unit TestsReadableMaintainableTrustworthy
- #11 11’ – Focusonly on the benefits. Short storyThe main benefit of code quality is that it REDUCE THE COST OF CHANGEChange is certain!Most of the time in our job we change existent code. We change code to add new features, because req change, because we missunderstood something, …The easier is to change it the easier our job is the more efficient we are it costs us lessWe read a lot of code to find where certain behavior is implemented we need to find our way in the codeRelated benefits - predictability of our changes or of how much it costs to add new features - efficiency: “The only way to go fast is to go well” - wellness and happiness
- #12 It is working don’t touch it!Fragile code structureCHALLENGE: How to reach to a code structure which is not fragile and we can change easily and with higher predictability
- #13 12’SOLID at workDesign patterns at workEach time you depend on something on which you have no control in your test you are doing an integration test!Integration tests are to be avoided because: - hard to write & maintain, depend on configurations HIGH COSTS - not knowing where the cause of failure is (which code, is it bad config?), no benefits to your code quality LOW BENEFITS
- #14 SOLID at workDesign patterns at workEach time you depend on something on which you have no control in your test you are doing an integration test!Integration tests are to be avoided because: - hard to write & maintain, depend on configurations HIGH COSTS - not knowing where the cause of failure is (which code, is it bad config?), no benefits to your code quality LOW BENEFITS
- #15 SOLID at workDesign patterns at workEach time you depend on something on which you have no control in your test you are doing an integration test!Integration tests are to be avoided because: - hard to write & maintain, depend on configurations HIGH COSTS - not knowing where the cause of failure is (which code, is it bad config?), no benefits to your code quality LOW BENEFITS
- #16 14’All the discussion about whether the design principles and design patterns are being followed are summarized to ONE question