Welcome to the second article of this series about improving the clarity, quality and reliability of tests in general, and unit tests in particular. In the first article last week we talked about the DRY and DAMP principles. Today we are going to discuss testing a piece of code depending on the configuration and about writing asserts and scenario-style tests.
Samuel Durand
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Not so long ago, I was one of those people that considered testing as an important step, but certainly not as something worthy of spending as much time and effort on as the code it covers. The quality and reliability of it was certainly not the highest priority, especially in a feature driven world. But all that changed when I came to work here, where I had the chance to work on some serious testing with people really interested in producing good quality code.
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