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Testing with f#

You're reading from   Testing with f# Deliver high-quality, bug-free applications by testing them with efficient and expressive functional programming

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784391232
Length 286 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mikael Lundin Mikael Lundin
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Preface 1. The Practice of Test Automation FREE CHAPTER 2. Writing Testable Code with Functional Programming 3. Setting Up Your Test Environment 4. Unit Testing 5. Integration Testing 6. Functional Testing 7. The Controversy of Test Automation 8. Testing in an Agile Context 9. Test Smells 10. The Ten Commandments of Test Automation Index

Don't mock the Mockingbird

Let us take a look at the following code:

// don't
[<Test>]
let ``should first get customers from customer service and then store them to hard drive`` () =
    // arrange
    let customerService = MockRepository.GenerateMock<ICustomerService>()
    let fileSystem = MockRepository.GenerateMock<IFileSystem>()
    let cacheJob = CacheJob(customerService, fileSystem)

    // setup mocks
    customerService.Expect(fun service -> service.GetCustomers()).Return([(1, "Mikael Lundin")]) |> ignore
    fileSystem.Expect(fun fs -> fs.AppendLineToFile("customer.txt", "1,Mikael Lundin")) |> ignore

    // act
    cacheJob.Execute() |> ignore
        
    // assert
    customerService.VerifyAllExpectations()
    fileSystem.VerifyAllExpectations()

// do
// simplify the SUT or implement a vertical slice

What if we change the storage from filesystem to database? Should the test fail when implementation changes...

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