Fit for Developing Software: Framework for Integrated Tests

Chapter 5. Testing Lists with RowFixture Tables

RowFixture tables are designed for testing that the results of a search or a query of the system under test are as expected. Such tables can also test that the expected elements of a list—group, list, sequence, set, or bag of things—are present in the system under test. For example, we may wish to test that all the outstanding orders for a customer are as expected. The rows together form a single group, unlike the independent rows of a ColumnFixture table.

Using RowFixture tables we now look at examples that test lists. In the next chapter, we’ll see how to combine such tables with other types of tables in a Fit test.

5.1 Testing Lists Whose Order Is Unimportant

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