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Should one create unit tests involving IO? Ie, testing a class method for serializing/deserializing another object?
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In recent years, I have only written small components for people in larger projects or small tools. I have never written a unit test and it always seems like learning how to write them and actually making one takes a lot longer than simply firing up the program and testing for real.
I am just about…
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Hello people,
I am diving into the world of unit testing. And i am sort of lost. I learned today that unit testing is testing if a function works.
I wanted to test the following function:
public function getEventById($id)
{
return $this->getResource('Event')->getEventById($id);
}
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Hi,
If I have a method which establishes a database connection, how could this method be tested? Returning a bool in the event of a successful connection is one way, but is that the best way?
From a testability method, is it best to have the connection method as one method and the method to get…
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I've been working with C# for the last 2 years, and I've never done any unit testing. I just need to know what the objective of unit testing is. What kind of results do we expect from unit testing? Is code quality checked by unit testing? In my view, unit testing is the job of testers; if that is…
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I'm working with a new team that has historically not done ANY unit testing. My goal is for the team to eventually employ TDD (Test Driven Development) as their natural process. But since TDD is such a radical mind shift for a non-unit testing team I thought I would just start off with writing unit…
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