Unit Testing

Course curriculum

1. Welcome from Sam (1 min)
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2. What do you know? (2 min)
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1. Writing Simple Tests (1 min)
2. Exercise: Create Tests (1 min)
3. Tolerance ( 1 min)
4. Exercise: Refactoring Practice (1 min)
1. Characteristics of Good Tests (5 min)
2. Poor Parameterization (2 min)
3. Demo: Parameters Example (15 min)
4. Exercise: Parameterized Tests (1 min)
5. Thoughts? (2 min)
1. Avoid Overspecifying (2 min)
2. Stack Example with Categorization (5 min)
3. Given When Then (3 min)
4. Exercise: Testing a Stack (5 min + exercise time)
5. Rule of Thumb (1 min)
1. Intro to Session 2 (1 min)
2. Exercise: Yatzy Bug (1 min + exercise time)
3. Thoughts on Yatzy Bug (3 min)
1. Intro + Recommended Viewing (1 min + 35 min)
2. Environment Setup (2 min)
3. Follow Along: Hello World Approval Testing (10 min)
4. Review (5 min)
1. Complicated Output (1 min)
2. Complicated Output Verify Person Demo (7 min)
3. Rule of Thumb (1 min)
4. Approval Scrubbers Demo (10 min)
5. Supermarket Kata (1 min + exercise time)
6. Initial Impressions (1 min)
7. Test Utility Methods Demo (7 min)
8. Supermarket Approvals Demo (3 min)
9. Supermarket Approval Printer Demo (7 min)
10. Printer (1 min)
11. Setup Teardown (1 min)
12. All Together (1 min)
13. Supermarket Review (4 min)
14. Exercise: Supermarket (1 min + exercise time)
1. Built in Tools (5 min)
2. Gilded Rose Combination Approvals Demo (25 min)
3. Refactoring Practice ( 2 min + exercise)
1. Introduction (1 min)
2. What makes code hard to test? (1 min)
3. What is it? (3 min)
4. Safe Refactorings (6 min)
5. Exercise: Simple Serial (1 min + exercise time)
1. Spies and Doubles intro (1 min)
2. Backdoor Access (2 min)
3. Com0Com (3 min)
4. Com0Com Demo (16 min)
5. Backdoor Pros and Cons (2 min)
6. Alternatives (2 min)
7. HALS (1 min)
8. Examples (3 min)
9. Serial Spy Demo (3 min)
10. Exercise: Return to Simple Serial (1 min + exercise time)
1. LMock with Simple Serial (4 min)
2. LMock Serial (2 min)
3. LMock Demo (14 min)
4. Use LMock on Simple Serial (1 min + exercise time)
5. SAS Mocks (2 min)
1. Timing Test Doubles (2 min)
2. Demo: Timing Test Doubles (12 min)
3. Timing Exercise (1 min + exercise time)
1. Sam's Rules for Frameworks (4 min)
2. Presentations to Watch (3 min)
3. AF Unit Test (2 min)
4. Allen's Ideas Applied to DQMH (2 min)
5. DQMH Unit Testing Demo (5 min)
6. Frameworks Rule of Thumb (1 min)
1. LUnit API and Reports (3 min + exercise time)
2. Prebuilds (3 min + exercise time)
3. LUnit G-CLI (7 min)
4. Exercise LUnit G-CLI (1 min + exercise time)
5. Switcheroo (3 min)
6. Approvals Demo (12 min)
1. GUI Testing (1 min)
2. SLL Drona (19 min)
1. Resources and Reflections (6 min)
2. Thank You! (2 min)

About this course

$499.00
86 lessons
5.5 hours of video content

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This workshop begins with the why of unit testing and its benefits and quickly gets into the how. We’ll learn about all the available tools and the benefits of writing the tests first. We’ll dive into techniques to deal with difficult to test code.

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Course curriculum

Unit Testing Introduction (3 min)

Hello World! (approx 20 min)

Writing Simple Tests (approx 4 min plus exercise time)

Parameterized Tests (approx 25 min plus exercise time)

API Testing (approx 16 min + exercise time)

Writing Tests for Bugs (approx 10 min)

Approval Testing (approx 18 min)

Complicated Output (approx 46 min + exercise time)

Combination Tests (approx 90 min)

Pure Functions (approx 12 min + exercise time)

Spies and Doubles (approx 34 min + exercise time)

Mocking (approx 23 min + exercise time)

Timing (approx 15 min + exercise time)

Dealing with Frameworks (approx 17 min)

Automating Tests (26 min + exercise time)

GUI Testing (20 min)

Reflections (8 min)

About this course

Take the first few lessons for free!