Test First Development

Question 1

give a release pipeline (4)

Answer 1

local development

dev

test

live

Question 2

describe test first development

Answer 2

tests serve as a mark of progress and specification

Question 3

describe the outside in approach

Answer 3

go through the GUI

Question 4

give the drawbacks of the outside in approach (2)

Answer 4

costly

difficult

Question 5

describe the middle out approach

Answer 5

anything that you can do at the service API level, you can do at the GUI

Question 6

what is a driver

Answer 6

calls the class to test rather than the one that depends on it.

This is test after development

Question 7

describe test after development

Answer 7

test each class then the one that depends on it

Question 8

what is a stub

Answer 8

if A depends on B but B isn’t ready, use a stub of B.

Question 9

describe test first development

Answer 9

write tests for everything, then write the tests. use stubs etc

Question 10

give the test first process (5)

Answer 10

define behaviours and acceptance tests

make tests compile using stubs

run tests

implement code

run tests

Question 11

what is wishful thinking

Answer 11

write tests for the perfect production code