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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

Developers not writing tests

The largest problem your test suite will have is developers that won't write tests. If there is a test suite and the test is run upon committing new code, then the tests will run when these developers commit code to the repository. However, the new code will not be covered by tests and there is uncertainty as to what will happen if the commit breaks the existing tests. Will the developer fix these tests or leave the test suite red?

The impact of not writing tests will start to devalue the whole test suite as the coverage goes down. If some developers stop updating the test suites, then others will follow, and soon you will have a test suite without any active development. Then, the team will not get full benefits, such as enabling refactoring or feeling safe about new features.

I have experienced development teams disabling a whole test suite because a test was failing. They claimed it was because they needed a green build in order to deploy to production...

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