Chapter 12Organizing Our Tests
About This Chapter
In the chapters concluding with Chapter 11, Using Test Doubles, we looked at various techniques for interacting with the SUT for the purpose of verifying its behavior. In this chapter, we turn our attention to the question of how to organize the test code to make it easy to find and understand.
The basic unit of test code organization is the Test Method (page 348). Deciding what to put in the Test Method and where to put it is central to the topic of test organization. When we have only a few tests, how we organize them isn't terribly important. By contrast, when we have hundreds of tests, test organization becomes a critical factor in keeping our tests easy to understand and find.
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