Automated Testing Patterns and Smells
Why Stack Overflow recommends it
Stack Overflow users link it when others ask for unit testing videos, advice on writing testable code, or guidance on refactoring test code.
Recommended by 3 people across 3 different months, 2008 to 2010.
What it is
A Google Tech Talk from 2008 in which consultant Gerard Meszaros describes common problems in automated unit and functional tests as "test smells", traces their root causes, and offers patterns to fix them. It draws on xUnit practice but also applies to tools like Watir and recorded-test tools.
What people said
Recommends Henrik Gustafsson · 2008-12 · Stack Overflow · on “Unit testing - videos or podcasts”
My collected bookmark-dump The Clean Code Talks [LINK] has some of Miško Hevery [LINK] s lectures at Google. New episodes are posted at the Google Testing Blog [LINK] as they arrive. Some of the GTAC 2008 [LINK] (Google Test Automation Conference 2008) videos are pretty interesting. Automated Testing Patterns and Smells [this video] Becoming a Software Testing Expert [LINK] is not really about unit testing, but helps you get into the tester mindset How To Design A Good API And Why It Matters [LINK] briefly touches on testability. Browsing the testing [LINK] tag on se-radio reveals some interesting podcasts Check out the videos from the Test track of Öredev 2007 ( 1 [LINK] , 2 [LINK] ), I especial
Recommends Nir Ofry · 2009-06 · Stack Overflow · on “Writing "unit testable" code?”
Check up this talk Automated Testing Patterns and Smells [this video] . One of the main take aways for me, was to make sure that the UnitTest code is in high quality. If the code is well documented and well written, everyone will be motivated to keep this up.
Recommends Mark Irvine · 2010-12 · Stack Overflow · on “Is refactoring of tests/spec a good idea?”
You might find this video interesting. In this video, Gerard Meszaros talks about refactoring unit tests, and talks about the reasons for doing it. [this video] Gerard Meszaros is author of 'xUnit Test Patterns - Refactoring Test Code'