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Test names should be sentences — Bitfield Consulting (bitfieldconsulting.com)

submitted 4 days ago by Kissaki@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] karlhungus@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Almost always use parameterized style tests, always have a name field, I don't use full sentences tho, that seems like too much. Don't believe I've ever seen a test like that either

These toy examples feel like strawmen to me

[–] McMonster@programming.dev 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I've seen codebases that had old testValid2 style of test as well as fully fleshed out conversionReturnsNullOnEmptyString style. Working there made me apreciate proper naming. I know different test frameworks in different languages let you name the test separately, but it's a bit of an effort duplication.

[–] karlhungus@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

Go has an idiom like so https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/blob/8da4386caceb3fdfaa90074bb29c77e8a99c7dad/api/kv_test.go#L27, when i mention name i'm referring to that string.

I get what your saying, we've all worked in terrible code bases, i've also worked in code bases where this kind of article was enforced. What you wound up with was something that was very wordy.