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Modern C++ Programming with Test-Driven Development
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Modern C++ Programming with Test-Driven Development

by Jeff Langr
October 2013
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
9h 20m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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8.13 Mondo Extracto

We need to figure out where within the ​open​ function to call ​size​ . Our call could go near the end of ​open​ , immediately before the code sends a message to the ​descriptor​ object. But since ​size​ re-opens a file, we need to ensure that the new WAV file gets closed first.

Unfortunately, the structure of ​open​ presents quite a challenge. Code all the way up to the call to the descriptor is riddled with file reads and writes. Writing a test able to execute the entire function remains fairly challenging. (We could pass a real, vetted WAV file to ​open​ , but that would net us a slow and dependent test.)

Instead, we refactor ​open​ with the goal of deriving some functions that we might stub or mock. After about a dozen ...

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