Quality Code: Software Testing Principles, Practices, and Patterns

Testing the Singleton Pattern

The Singleton pattern guarantees uniform and controlled access to a unique instance of an object.² It acts as the object-oriented stand-in for a global variable in the cases in which such is warranted. In its purest use, it corresponds to a real and unique physical resource. It is often used to represent something that is unique to the application, such as an entry point to a remote service or an application registry.

2. Do not confuse the Singleton pattern with the broader concept of a singleton object, an object of which only one exists. The Singleton pattern is one way to ensure you have a singleton object, but there are other reasonable approaches.

There are several ways to implement singletons. A typical implementation ...