My Tests are a Mess: The Other Junk Drawer

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4. The Other Junk Drawer
5. Long live TDD TDD is Dead
6. Thanks for your time! Any questions? $ rm -rf ./tests
7. Hi I am Aaron @cupakromer
8. Hi I am Chris @crsexton
10. And mess with the folks next door Let’s wake up
11. Like I did something super amazing On 3, say “woah”
12. This will really confuse them On 3, say “Moo”
13. I feel more awake That’s better
14. My Tests are a Mess
15. SRSLY How did it get this way?
16. 10,000 ft
18. Goal
19. Write code that I can understand when I come back to it in 6 months My Real Goal
20. Simple
21. The Plague It’s easy to build something complicated
22. Complicated vs. Complex
24. What to Test?
25. Acceptance Keep the business happy. Make things work.
26. Units Check all the bits and pieces
27. Units Sandi is a Wizard Magic Tricks of Testing bit.ly/sandi-wizard
28. In between Controllers Views Form Object Policies
29. Overlap Wait a second, that won’t work
31. Mise en Place Put your toys away as you go
32. Directory Structure mirror `/lib` (and `/app`)
33. Group Logically Put related things close together
34. Manage Setup Very carefully
35. Setup
36. Setup
37. Setup
38. Setup
39. Setup
40. Setup
41. Setup
42. Setup
43. Tests should help you understand what you need to test (state) Class declarations tell you what behaviors you need to test
45. Priority
46. Intent
47. Habit
49. Awesome Tests “Bad” tests are 100% more awesome than no tests
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54. Classic Arrange Act Assert
55. Arrange All the necessary preconditions and inputs
56. Act On the object or method under test
57. Assert That the expected results occurred