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Unit Testing Principles, Practices, and Patterns
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Unit Testing Principles, Practices, and Patterns

by Vladimir Khorikov
January 2020
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
9h 8m
English
Manning Publications
Audiobook available
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Chapter 7. Refactoring toward valuable unit tests

This chapter covers

  • Recognizing the four types of code
  • Understanding the Humble Object pattern
  • Writing valuable tests

In chapter 1, I defined the properties of a good unit test suite:

  • It is integrated into the development cycle.
  • It targets only the most important parts of your code base.
  • It provides maximum value with minimum maintenance costs. To achieve this last attribute, you need to be able to:
    • Recognize a valuable test (and, by extension, a test of low value).
    • Write a valuable test.

Chapter 4 covered the topic of recognizing a valuable test using the four attributes: protection against regressions, resistance to refactoring, fast feedback, and maintainability. And chapter 5 expanded ...

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