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Testing with JUnit

You're reading from   Testing with JUnit Master high quality software development driven by unit tests

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
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ISBN-13 9781782166603
Length 200 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Getting the test names right

Finding good names is one of the challenges of crafting software. You need to find them all the time and for everything: classes, methods, variables, just to name a few. Because of that, the last section of this chapter explains the particularities of naming tests and balances the pros and cons of common approaches and conventions.

Test prefix

What makes a name a good name? To quote Uncle Bob:

"Three things: Readability, readability, and readability!"

He defines this later on as clarity, simplicity, and density of expression, [MART09]. Though this sounds reasonable, it leaves us with the question of how to achieve these qualities when naming our tests.

Before the arrival of annotations in the Java language, it was necessary to distinguish tests from ordinary methods to be able to process them by the JUnit runtime. This is because the latter has to pick up each test separately, run it, and report the results. The technical solution was to prefix the name...

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