It’s been over a month now since my last post in this series, and for that I sort of apologize. I think I’ve been channelling all of my instructive energy into my now-finished Pluralsight course, leaving the blog largely for opinions, screeds, and a random hiring announcement. So, let’s get back on track and wrap…
In this series so far, I’ve introduced the concept of unit testing, talked about how to avoid early failures and frustrations, and then dived more in depth into the subject. But now that you’re familiar with the topic and reasonably well versed in it (particularly if you’ve been practicing over the course of this series),…
In the last two posts in this series, I talked about how to test new code in your code base and then how to bring your legacy code under test. Toward the end of the last chapter in this series, I talked a bit about the concept of test doubles. The example I showed was…
If, in the movie Braveheart, the Scots had been battling a nasty legacy code base instead of the English under Edward Longshanks, the conversation after the battle at Stirling between Wallace and minor Scottish noble MacClannough might have gone like this: Wallace: We have prevented new bugs in the code base by adding new unit…
In the last post in this series, I covered what I think of as an important yet seldom discussed subject: how not to overwhelm yourself and get discouraged when you’re starting to unit test. In the post before that, I showed the basics of writing a unit test. But this leaves something of a gap….
