112: Six Principles of Readable Tests - David Seddon
"Code is read much more often than it is written." - Guido van Rossum
This is true for both production code and test code.
This is true for both production code and test code.
When you are trying to understand why a test is failing, you'll be very grateful to the test author if they've taken the care to make it readable.
David Seddon came up with 6 principles to help us write more readable tests.
We discuss these, as well as more benefits of readable tests.
We discuss these, as well as more benefits of readable tests.
David's 6 Principles of Readable Tests:
- Profit from the work of others
- Put naming to work
- Show only what matters
- Don’t repeat yourself
- Arrange, act, assert
- Aim high
Special Guest: David Seddon.
Links:
- How to write readable tests (presentation) · David Seddon
- How to write readable tests (slides)
- pytest
- WebTest
- factory_boy
- django-webtest
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