Test Code Quality and engineering

• Developers have to put extra effort into making high-quality test code bases, so that these can be maintained and developed in a sustainable way.
• This Lecture

the FIRST properties

FIRST is an acronym for fast, isolated, repeatable, self-validating and timely:

• Fast
• Isolated
• Repeatable
• Self-Validating
• Timely

Test Desiderata

• Twelve properties that good tests have

Test Code Smells

• Code Duplication
• Assertion Roulette
• Recourse Optimism
• Test Run War
• General Fixture
• Sensitive Equality
• Inappropriate Assertions