Mastering Software Testing with JUnit 5

Test anti-patterns

In software design, a pattern is a reusable solution to solve recurring problems. There are a bunch of them, including for example singleton, factory, builder, facade, proxy, decorator, or adapter, to name a few. Anti-patterns are also patterns, but undesirable ones. Concerning to testing, it is worth to know some of these anti-patterns to avoid them in our tests:

• Second class citizens: Test code containing a lot of duplicated code, making it hard to maintain.
• The free ride (also known as Piggyback): Instead of writing a new method to verify another feature/requirement, a new assertion is added to an existing test.
• Happy path: It only verifies expected results without testing for boundaries and exceptions.
• The local hero ...