Section on unit testing

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Open temken opened 4 years ago

temken commented 4 years ago

What makes a unit test a "good test"?
How to write good unit tests for more complicated functions than int fibonacci(int n)? For example, what if the return value of a function is random?
How to write unit tests for private class-member functions?
How to test e.g. functions that only print out some summary on the terminal?
How to test the failure of functions, e.g. error messages, warnings.

bast commented 4 years ago

Great questions/suggestions! Thanks for raising this!

bast commented 4 years ago

We'll talk about it tomorrow :-)