Unit Testing glossary: Journeyman level
8 Unit Testing terms at the Journeyman level, each with a short definition and a link to its full page.
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- Code Coverage
- How much code the tests execute.
- Mock
- A stand-in that records how it was called.
- Red, Green, Refactor
- The TDD loop: fail, pass, then tidy.
- Setup and Teardown
- Code run before and after each test.
- Snapshot Testing
- Save output at the beginning of a test, then check again later to see if the values changed.
- Stub and Fake
- Stubs return canned answers; fakes are simple working versions.
- Test Double
- Any stand-in object used in a test.
- Test Naming
- Names that state behaviour, condition and expected outcome.