In this section, I will be going through some interesting ideas that can help super-charge your daily test workflow. What's more, we will also be exploring some neat tricks that you can use to isolate tests, mock calls to system binaries, and control time within your tests.
Tips and tricks for writing tests
Using environment variables to set up or skip tests
In a project of any size, you are eventually bound to come across a series of tests that depend on external resources that are created or configured in an ad hoc fashion.
A typical example of such a use case would be a test suite that talks to a database. As the engineers working locally on the code base, we would probably spin up a local database instance with a...
