xUnit Test Patterns @ XPToronto

19 Sep 2007

Alistair McKinnell and Jason Cheong-Kee-You gave an excellent talk on xUnit Test Patterns at XPToronto last night. The presentation included a discussion of Gerard Meszaros’s test philosophy framework:

• Test First or Last?
• Tests or Examples?
• Test-by-Test or All-At-Once?
• Outside-In or Inside-Out?
• State or Behavior Verification?
• Fixture Design Up Front or Test-by-Test?

For illustration, Alistair and Jason worked through the development of a set of JUnit tests in a session of pair programming. They worked: Test First, Test-by-Test, Inside-Out, Behavior Verification.