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Podcast: Test & Code
Episode: 10: Test Case Design using Given-When-Then from BDD
Description: Given-When-Then is borrowed from BDD and is my favorite structure for test case design.
It doesn’t matter if you are using pytest, unittest, nose, or something completely different, this episode will help you write better tests.
The Given-When-Then structure for test method/function development.
How and why to utilize fixtures for your given or precondition code.
Similarities with other structure discriptions.
Setup-Test-Teardown
Setup-Excercise-Verify-Teardown.
Arrange-Act-Assert
Preconditions-Trigger-Postconditions.
Benefits
Communicate the purpose of your test more clearly
Focus your thinking while writing the test
Make test writing faster
Make it easier to re-use parts of your test
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