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Title: Designing For Testability


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Designing For Testability
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Designing For Testability
  • Incorporate design features that facilitate
    testing
  • Include features to
  • support test automation at both the unit and
    system levels
  • provide visibility into the programs internal
    state and activities
  • (this allows more specific and accurate bug
    reports)

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Verbose output mode
mail -v bret_at_pettichord.com Subject testability
example Sample text. . Cc bret_at_pettichord.com...
Connecting to mx.io.com. via relay...
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8.9.3/8.9.3 Fri, 12 Jan 2001 153436 -00 220
Welcome to Illuminati Online, Fnord! EHLO
eris.io.com 250-deliverator.io.com Hello
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250-ETRN 250-XUSR 250 HELP MAIL From
SIZE67 250
... Sender ok RCPT To
250 ...
Recipient ok DATA 354 Enter mail, end with
. on a line by itself . 250 PAA07752
Message accepted for delivery bret_at_pettichord.com.
.. Sent (PAA07752 Message accepted for delivery)
Closing connection to mx.io.com. QUIT 221
deliverator.io.com closing connection
Example quoted from Design for Testability by
Bret Pettichord
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Logging events to a file
class Log public const int DEBUG 1
const int INFO 2 const int WARNING
3 const int ERROR 4 const int FATAL
5 // send log output to the console
Log() // send log
output to a file Log(const string
file) // Send log output to a remote
server Log(const string serverIpAddress,
int serverPort) // Only log messages with
priority minPriority void
SetMinPriority(Priority minPriority) // Log
messages with the various priorities
Debug(const string message) Info(const
string message) Warning(const string
message) Error(const string message)
Fatal(const string message)
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Asserts
  • Asserts are little test cases distributed
    throughout the code
  • Abortive asserts (crash if assert fails)
  • Logging asserts (log message if assert fails)

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The Mock Object design pattern
  • Allows a class to be isolated from its
    dependencies during unit testing
  • Supports fault injection
  • Cause the software to fail at points where it
    normally wouldnt to test error handling code
  • Example URL Spelling Checker

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Provide automation interfaces
  • When possible, test cases should be automated
    with test scripts
  • Test Script a program that runs a batch of
    automated test cases and reports the results
  • User interfaces often do not lend themselves to
    automation (especially GUIs)
  • Programs can provide automation interfaces that
    allow test scripts to run commands and query
    application state without going through the user
    interface
  • Cmd-line interface (e.g., test-tracker
    add-test-plan Word10)
  • Execute batch command file (e.g., test-tracker
    run-batch cmds.txt)
  • Web service API

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Data generators loaders
  • Creating large data sets by hand is not feasible
  • Think about trying to manually enter large
    amounts of test plan and defect data in Test
    Tracker
  • Data Generator
  • A program that generates large amounts of test
    data
  • Configuration parameters let the user shape the
    generated data
  • Data Loader
  • A program that loads generated test data into the
    application
  • Example Test Tracker Data Generator Loader
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