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Should we test private data (static objects in this case) to make sure it maintains its structure?
I had a discussion at work about whether to unit test a private static object we're using as data for a public component.
const data = {
45: { name: 'John' },
2: { name: 'Patricia' },
27: { name: '...
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Is it bad practice to supply command line arguments for unit tests
I am on C++ and using gtest as the main framework. Say I have a edge detection function I want to test that takes an image as an input and returns the edge detected image. I have 3 images ready to be ...
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Is it right to skip unit testing and go straight writing integration tests if there's no point of testing the unit in isolation?
According to Martin Fowler's article,
https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TestPyramid.html
It is advisable to write more unit tests than integration tests. Does this mean ideally that every unit of work ...
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Unit-testing databases: test all possible permutations of read and write to table?
I am testing a resource management class that is interacting with a database or a file system, or a combination of both. I was wandering if it is the norm to test all possible permutations of read and ...
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