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Working Effectively with Legacy Code
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Working Effectively with Legacy Code

by Michael Feathers
September 2004
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
10h
English
Pearson
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Chapter 18: My Test Code Is in the Way

When you first start writing unit tests, it might feel unnatural. One thing that people commonly encounter is a sense that their tests are just in the way. They browse around their project and sometimes forget whether they are looking at test code or production code. The fact that you start to end up with a lot of test code doesn’t help. Unless you start to establish some conventions, you can end up swamped.

Class Naming Conventions

One of the first things to establish is a class naming convention. Generally, you’ll have at least one unit test class for each class that you work on, so it makes sense to make the unit test class name a variation of the class name. A couple of conventions are used. The most ...

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