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Test-Driven Development with C++

You're reading from   Test-Driven Development with C++ A simple guide to writing bug-free Agile code

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803242002
Length 430 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Abdul Wahid Tanner Abdul Wahid Tanner
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Testing MVP
2. Chapter 1: Desired Test Declaration FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Test Results 4. Chapter 3: The TDD Process 5. Chapter 4: Adding Tests to a Project 6. Chapter 5: Adding More Confirm Types 7. Chapter 6: Explore Improvements Early 8. Chapter 7: Test Setup and Teardown 9. Chapter 8: What Makes a Good Test? 10. Part 2: Using TDD to Create a Logging Library
11. Chapter 9: Using Tests 12. Chapter 10: The TDD Process in Depth 13. Chapter 11: Managing Dependencies 14. Part 3: Extending the TDD Library to Support the Growing Needs of the Logging Library
15. Chapter 12: Creating Better Test Confirmations 16. Chapter 13: How to Test Floating-Point and Custom Values 17. Chapter 14: How to Test Services 18. Chapter 15: How to Test With Multiple Threads 19. Index 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Do only what is needed to pass

When writing code, it’s easy to think of all the possibilities of how a method might be used, for example, and to write code to handle each possibility right away. This gets easier with experience and is normally viewed as a good way to write robust code without forgetting to handle different use cases or error conditions.

I urge you to scale back your eagerness to write all this at once. Instead, do only what is needed to pass a test. Then, as you think of other use cases, write a test for each, before extending your code to handle them. The same applies to error cases. As you think of some new error handling that should be added, write a test that will cause that error condition to arise before handling it in your code.

To see how this is done, let’s extend the test library to allow for expected exceptions. We have two test cases right now:

#include "../Test.h"
TEST("Test can be created")
{
}
TEST("Test...
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