✅ Testing Productively
Another post about testing.
Hey Productive Developers, Welcome back to another issue! Today, we're talking about testing productively!
Testing is like your code's personal trainer. It pushes your code to its limits, exposing weaknesses and ensuring a good design and nice API. However, like any training program, productive testing requires a strategic approach.
5️⃣ Tips to Make the Testing Process Productive
Here are some tips to test your code productively:
Start Early and Often: Don't wait until the finish line to test. Integrate testing as an ongoing process (Use TDD); making your code testable from the beginning will save you time.
Write Clear, Concise Tests: Like your production code, your tests should be clean, readable, and maintainable. Use descriptive names for your test cases, and break them down into small, focused units to make debugging easier.
Run Tests Early and Often: Integrate automated tests into your CI/CD pipeline and run them with every commit. This catches bugs early in development when they're cheaper and easier to fix.
Parallelize Your Tests: Don't waste time waiting for tests to finish running sequentially. Parallelize your test suites to use modern hardware and get faster feedback on your code changes (This is another way of testing your test to ensure no interaction or dependency among the tests.)
Master a framework or tool: Try to spend some time mastering a testing tool (such as JUnit) and learn how it works, what options it offers, and what features it has. This will give you a deeper understanding that will make you more productive in the long run using this tool.
📗 Recommended Books
Here are some books I recommend adding to your reading list if you haven't read them already:
Unit Testing Principles, Practices, and Patterns by Vladimir Khorikov.
XUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code by Gerard Meszaros.
Test-Driven Development by Kent Beck.
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