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Language is important..

Even for the little things.  For example at a glance which would you rather see...

        [TestSetUp]
        public void TestSetUp()
        {
        }

        [TestTearDown]
        public void TestTearDown()
        {
        }

Or this..

        [TestSetUp]
        public void BeforeEachTest()
        {
        }

        [TestTearDown]
        public void AfterEachTest()
        {
        }

Language is important.. always be on the lookout for new ways you can improve your codes 
communication abilities by relying on language.  BDD is a perfect example of this...

posted @ Saturday, November 08, 2008 9:09 AM

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# re: Language is important..

Left by Bil Simser at 11/25/2008 2:48 PM
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I would rather see neither. Setup and Teardown are evil and voilate the first rule of TDD, keep your tests isolated. I can't isolate my test if someone is mucking around with the system before it runs. Go on, put in your setup/teardown and let some guy come along and introduce something into it you didn't expect (and won't find because setup is buried in the top of your unit test file and you're writing test #3201 on line #854). Watch 1000 tests break for no apparent reason and see yourself spend hours trying to figure out why.

# re: Language is important..

Left by Shane Courtrille at 11/25/2008 3:12 PM
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That's definitely a view I haven't seen expressed elsewhere. I can definitely understand where you are coming from but am curious as to your solution. While test setup should not be difficult it is duplication unless you are refactoring to test setup methods?

# re: Language is important..

Left by Bil Simser at 12/8/2008 12:50 PM
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Refactoring tests to help with DRY is a waste of time. If your setup is that big that you need to refactor duplication, I would say there's a smell in the domain in setting up tests. No test should take more than a line or two to setup. If it doesn't it either means there's too much leakage in the subject under test, or you're testing too much at once. Try using xunit where there is no setup/teardown facilities. I think TDD developers have fallen into a lax mode where they rely on test setup to help them rather than focusing on what they're testing.

# re: Language is important..

Left by meeeeeeeee at 2/11/2009 6:50 PM
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ok this is stupid give me a essay on this stuff plz

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