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Bad Practices of Testing presentation

Recently I gave a presentation called “Bad Practices of Testing”. It shows the most common mistakes done while writing tests, describes problems they cause and shows how to do it better. Slides are done using github markdown so you can read it online here: https://github.com/Jarcionek/Bad-Practices-of-Testing

What to mock and why not to mock data objects?

Recently when reviewing my code before opening a pull request, I have noticed a few methods that I felt were untested. I have run all tests with coverage and indeed 7 methods in the class were not covered. The class was a data object and all these 7 methods were mostly getters and setters so the following questions arose:

  • Should I have a unit test for data object?
  • Should I be testing getters and setters?
  • Why I never had to do this before?

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