Go beyond basic testing! Great software testing makes the entire development process more efficient, from understanding your code before you write it to catching bugs in tricky corner cases. Effective Software Testing is a hands-on guide to creating high quality tests, from your first line of code through pre-delivery checks. Itβs full of techniques drawn from proven research in software engineering. Youβll learn to efficiently engineer tests specifically for your software and end reliance on generic testing practices that may be right for every project. Effective Software Testing teaches you a systematic approach to software testing. Youβll master easy-to-apply techniques to create strong test suites that are specifically engineered for your code. Following real-world use cases and detailed code samples, youβll soon be engineering tests that find the bugs hiding in edge cases and the parts of code you would never think of testing! Along the way, youβll develop an intuition for testing that can save years of learning by trial and error.
In Effective Software Testing you will learn how to:
* Engineer tests with a much higher chance of finding bugs
* Read code coverage metrics and use them to improve your test suite
* Understand when to use unit tests, integration tests, and system tests
* Use mocks and stubs to simplify your unit testing
* Think of pre-conditions, post-conditions, invariants, and contracts
* Implement property-based tests
* Utilize coding practices like dependency injection and hexagonal architecture that make your software easier to test
* Write good and maintainable test code