Test driven development

Test Driven Development “TDD  is  not  testing,  it  is  a  design  technique”.

What is TDD TDD is a style of development where: • You maintain an exhaustive suite of Programmer Tests • No code goes into production unless it has associated tests • You write the tests first • The tests determine what code you need to write

Red – Green - Refactor

RED

GREEN REFACTOR

1. Write a test that fails

2. Make the code work 3. Eliminate redundancy

A sad misconception Because of the name of TDD most inexperienced developers believe it is testing. This leads to the following objections: • Writing unit tests takes too much time. • How  could  I  write  tests  first  if  I  don’t  know  what  it  does  yet? • Unit tests won't catch all the bugs.

A sad misconception In fact TDD is a design technique and our objections should be: • Designing takes too much time. • How could I design first if I don't know what it does yet? • Designing won't catch all the bugs.

Traditional software development

•Requirements

•Design

•Implementation

•Testing

•Maintenance

TDD is Agile “Agile”  means: • Characterized by quickness, lightness, and ease of movement;

nimble. • Mentally quick or alert

ADAPTABILITY

TRANSPARENCY S I M P L I C I T Y UNITY

extreme programming

SCRUM

ITERATION continuous

WORKING SOFTWARE

CRYSTAL

DAILY

RELEASE

Why TDD

Why TDD • Ensures quality • Keeps code clear, simple and testable • Provides documentation for different team

members • Repeatable tests • Enables rapid change

Why TDD “When  you  already  have  Tests that documents how your code works  and  also  verifies  every  logical  units,  programmer’s  bugs  are significantly reduced resulting more time coding, less time debugging.”

“You  can  confidently refactor your production code without worrying about breaking it, if you already have test code written, it  acts  as  safety  net.”

“Tests  on  TDD  describe  the  behaviour of the code you are going to write. So, tests provides better picture of specification than documentation written on a paper because test runs.”

A Practical Guide - Refactoring • Public void init() { • getContentPane().setLayout(new FlowLayout()); • movieList = new JList(myEditor.getMoviews()); • JScrollPane scroller = new JScrollPane(movieList); • getContentPane().add(scroller); • movieField = new JTextField(16); • getContentPane().add(movieField); • addButton = new JButton(“Add”); • addButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { • public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { • myEditor.add(movie.getText()); •

movieList.setListData(myEditor.getMovies()); • } • }); • getContentPane().add(addButton); • }

• public void init() { • setLayout(); • initMovieList(); • initMovieField(); • initAddButton(); • } • private void setLayout() { • getContentPane().setLayout(new FlowLayout()); • } • private void initMovieList() { • movieList = new JList(getMovies(); • JScrollPane scroller = new JScrollpane(movieList); • getContentPane().add(scroller); • } • private void initMovieField() { • movieField = new JTextField(16); • getContentPane().add(movieField); • } • private void initAddButton() { • addButton = new JButton(“Add”); • addButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { • public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { • myEditor.add(movie.getText()); •

movieList.setListData(myEditor.getMovies()); • } • }); • getContentPane().add(addButton); • }

A Practical Guide - Refactoring

• Extract Method

When a method gets too long or the logic is too complex to be easily understood, part of it can be pulled out into a method of its own.

A Practical Guide - Refactoring • public class Employee { • //0-engineer, 1-salesman, 2-manager • private String departmentName() { • switch (employeeType ) { • case 0: • return  “Engineering”; • case 1: • return  “Sales”; • case 2: • return  “Management”; • default: • return  “Unknown”; • } • } • }

• abstract public class Employee { • Public abstract String

departmentName(); • } • public class Engineer extends Employee { • Public String departmentName() { • Return  “Engineering”; • } • } • public class SalesMan extends Employee { • Public String departmentName() { • Return  “Sales”; • } • } • public class Manager extends Employee { • Public String departmentName() { • Return  “Management”; • } • }

A Practical Guide - Refactoring

• Replace Conditional with Polymorphism

When we find switch statements, consider creating subclasses to handle the different cases and get rid of the switch.

A Practical Guide - Refactoring • public Money calculateTotal(){ • Money subtotal = getSubtotal(); • Money tax = getTaxableSubtotal().times(0.15); • Money total = subtotal.plus(tax); • Boolean qualifiesForDiscount = getSubtotal().asDouble()>100.0; • Money discount = qualifiesForDiscount • ?subtotal.times(0.10) • :new Money(0.0); • return total.minus(discount); • }

• public Money calculateTotal(){ • return getSubtotal().plus((getTaxableSubtotal().times(0.15))) • .minus((getSubtotal().asDouble()>100.0) • ?(getSubtotal().times(0.10)) • :0); • }

A Practical Guide - Refactoring • Introduce Explaining Variable

When we have a complex expression that is difficult to understand, we can extract parts of it and store the intermediate results in well-named temporary variables. This breaks the expression into easy to understand pieces, as well as making the overall expression clearer.

A Practical Guide - Refactoring • public int fib(int i) { • int result; • if(i == 0){ • result = 0; • }else if (i <=2){ • result = 1; • }else { • result = fib( i – 1) + fib(i -2); • } • return result; • }

• public int fib( int i ){ • If (i == 0)return 0; • If (i <= 2)return 1; • return fib(i – 1) + fib(i – 2); • }

A Practical Guide - Refactoring • Replace Nested Conditional with Guard

Clauses Many people have been taught that a method should have only a single exit point. There is no reason for this, certainly not at the expense of clarity. In a method that should exit under multiple conditions, this leads to complex, nested conditional statements. A better, and much clearer alternative is to use guard clauses to return under those conditions.

A Practical Guide - Refactoring • Extract class • Extract interface • Replace Type Code with Subclasses • Form Template Method • Replace constructor with Factory method • Replace Inheritance with Delegation • Replace magic number with symbolic constant

A Practical Guide - JUnit • JUnit is a Java tool that allows you to easily write tests. • It  uses  Annotations  und  Reflection  (see  one  of  the  next chapters). During execution JUnit runs methods like: @Test public void ...() • JUnit offers  assert-methods to formulate your test outcomes. • Example: assertEquals(5, model.getCurrentValue()); Here, the order is important: expected value, actual value, since an error report says: expected 5 but was ...

A Practical Guide - JUnit The Assertions 1. assertEquals(expected, actual) 2. assertEquals(expected, actual, delta) for

float  and double obligatory; checks if |expected  −  actual|  <  δ

3. assertNull, assertNotNull 4. assertTrue, assertFalse 5. assertSame, assertNotSame

A Practical Guide - JUnit Junit Life Cycle 1. JUnit collects all @Test-Methods in your test class via  Reflection. 2. JUnit executes these methods in isolation from each other, and with undefined  order. 3. JUnit creates a new instance of the test class for each test run in  order  to  avoid  side  effects  between  tests. 4. Test run: 4.1 An @Before annotated method is executed, if one exists. 4.2 An @Test-method is executed. 4.3 An @After annotated method is executed, if one exists. 5. This cycle repeats starting from step 3 until all test methods have been executed.

A Practical Guide - JUnit

Advanced JUnit features • Predefined  maximum runtime of a test: @Test(timeout = 1000l) • Expected exception: @Test(expected=NullPointerException.class) • Flow of execution must not come to certain point: fail("message") makes the test fail anyhow

A Practical Guide - JUnit

Parameterized Tests Idea: run one test with several parameter sets. • 1. Annotate your test class with @RunWith(Parameterized.class). • 2. Implement a noarg public static method annotated with @Parameters,returning a Collection of Arrays. • 3. Each element of the array must contain the expected value

and all required parameters. • 4. Implement a constructor setting these values to instance

variables of the test. • 5. Implement one test method using the parameters.

A Practical Guide - JUnit @RunWith(Parameterized.class) public class PrimeNumberValidatorTest { private Integer primeNumber; private Boolean expectedValidation; private PrimeNumberValidator primeNumberValidator; @Before public void initialize() { primeNumberValidator = new PrimeNumberValidator(); } // Each parameter should be placed as an argument here // Every time runner triggers, it will pass the arguments from parameters we defined public PrimeNumberValidatorTest(Integer primeNumber, Boolean expectedValidation) { this.primeNumber = primeNumber; this.expectedValidation = expectedValidation; } @Parameterized.Parameters public static Collection primeNumbers() { return Arrays.asList(new Object[][] { { 2, true }, { 6, false }, { 19, true }, { 22, false } }); } // This test will run 4 times since we have 4 parameters defined @Test public void testPrimeNumberValidator() { assertEquals(expectedValidation, primeNumberValidator.validate(primeNumber)); } }

A Practical Guide - JUnit Tips writing Tests • Test the simple stuff first • Use assertEquals as much as possible • Use the message argument • Keep test methods simple • Test boundary conditions early • Keep your tests independent of each other • Use fined-grained interfaces liberally (make it easier to create and

maintain mock implementations) • Avoid System.out and System.err in your tests • Avoid testing against databases and network resources • Add a main() to your test cases (doing this lets easily run any test from

command line or other tool) • Start with the assert (and continue backwards) • Always write a toString() method (failure reports will be more

informative, saving time and effort)

Thank  you  for  your  patience….