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Abstraction and Testing – UI Component Testing

January 30, 2024

Abstraction is one of the founding principles of software. In this post I describe UI component testing breaks through abstraction and causes fragile tests.

Abstraction and Testing – The Other Side

January 16, 2024

Abstraction is one of the founding principles of software. In this post I describe how interfaces are just one side of the problem in testing.

Abstraction and Testing – Mocks

January 9, 2024

Abstraction is one of the founding principles of software. In this post I describe how mocks break abstraction and its effect on testing.

Abstraction and Testing – Intro

January 1, 2024

Abstraction is one of the founding principles of software. It allows us to simplify ideas, code and usage. It also impacts testing directly.

The Truth About Fragile Tests

October 4, 2023

We call fragile tests like that because that’s what we see when they break. Instead, we should probably focus on the production code that breaks them.

Gil Zilberfeld explains how Unit tests (and integration tests) not only check that the code works, but are also hold useful information when they fail.

Triangulation: The Other Role Of Unit Tests

October 12, 2017

“Why do we need unit tests?” Seems like a silly question. We want to check if something is working, right? Let’s dig deeper, though. At the time of writing, if we’re using test-first or TDD, we’re designing interfaces, apply usage… Continue Reading…