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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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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

Supporting test setup and teardown

In order to support test setup and teardown, we only need to arrange for some code to run before a test begins and for some code to run after a test finishes. For the setup, we might be able to simply call a function near the beginning of the test. The setup doesn’t actually have to run before the test, as long as it runs before the test needs the setup results. What I mean is that the unit test library doesn’t really need to run the setup before a test begins. As long as the test itself runs the setup at the very beginning of the test, then we get the same overall result. This would be the simplest solution. It’s not really a new solution at all, though. A test can already call other functions.

The biggest problem I see with simply declaring a standalone function and calling it at the start of a test is that the intent can get lost. What I mean is that it’s up to the test author to make sure that a function called within...

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