Writing Maintainable Unit Tests

Master the art of loosely coupled unit tests

Created by: Jan Van Ryswyck
Owner at Principal IT

What Will I Learn?

• How to apply the test pyramid
• Learn about state and behaviour verification
• Understand and apply the DRY, SRP and DAMP principles
• How to organise unit tests
• Build loosely coupled unit tests
• Provide intentful assertions and observations

Requirements

• A decent understanding of an object-oriented programming language, preferrably C# or Java.
• At the very least some first experiences writing unit tests for production code.
• Basic or intermediate knowledge of xUnit test frameworks (e.g. NUnit, JUnit, xUnit, ...).
• Basic or intermediate knowledge of mocking frameworks in general.

Target audience

• This course is for software developers who want to improve upon their existing skills for writing readable and maintainable unit tests.