October 2013
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
9h 20m
English
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9.2 Core Concepts for Test-Driving Threads
In this chapter, you’ll work through an example that demonstrates a few core concepts around test-driving threads.
Separate threading logic from application logic. The best object-oriented design is one that separates concerns as much as possible. Your design for a multithreaded application should be no different. Threading is one concern, and your application logic is another. Keep them separate as much as possible and minimize their intermingling. Once again, small methods and classes are a best friend here (see Benefits of Small Methods).
Sleep is bad, m’kay? Pausing execution in a thread via
sleep_for , in order to wait for a condition to be met, is a poor solution for many reasons. Test ...