Course
Test-Driven Development in C++ – Unit Testing and Refactoring for Agile Software Development
The Test-Driven Development in C++ course presents a number of modern practices for developing code based on an iterative and incremental development lifecycle. Agility and predictability are two qualities often missing from software development. A test-driven approach, in which design is grown and code delivered incrementally according to functionality or risk, forms the basis of the construction phase of an iterative and incremental development. The use of unit testing
provides confidence in existing code and supports the ability to refactor code as development unfolds.
The course is intended as a practical course: the best way to appreciate how test-driven development works and what it feels like is to do it in practice, making sense of the principles it embodies. In this form the course is based on lecture material, demonstration, discussion and hands-on labs. However, the course can also be run as a seminar without hands-on labs, which
puts more emphasis on understanding the principles through the demonstrations.
Duration: 2 days
Who is it for: The course is suitable for software developers experienced in C++ and familiar with object-oriented
principles and practices.
Layout: The training course combines lectures with practical exercises that help the delegates to put what they have learned on the training course into practice. The exercises specifically build on what has been recently taught and are built up as the training course progresses.
Objectives
- Appreciate the benefits of a continuous and iterative approach to design and delivery
- Recognise the purpose and practice of refactoring in keeping a system supple and adaptable
- Know how to build up a set of tests and simple test frameworks for units of code
- Understand the consequences of dependency management on testing and code quality
Modules
Agile Development Microprocess
- Traditional versus agile development processes
- Iterative and incremental development
- Informal and continuous design
- The role of refactoring
- Refactoring versus other code changes
- Extreme Programming
- Test-Driven Development
Testing in Principle
- Traditional view and reality of testing
- Driving development through testing
- Testing early, often and automatically
- Testing versus debugging
- White-box versus black-box testing
- Functional versus operational testing
Basic Unit Testing in Practice
- Test plans versus test code
- Use of Assert
- Testing at the interface
- Testing the simplest things first
- Testing incrementally
- Testing correctness of failure
Refactoring a Test Harness
- Common unit test frameworks (xUnit and Boost)
- Refactoring to a simple framework
- Test cases, test suites and test runners
- Throwing exceptions on failure
- Continuing tests after failure
- Customising assertions
- Testing correctness of exceptions
Test-Writing Techniques
- Red, green, refactor
- None to one to many
- Faking it
- Telling the truth
- Isolated and short tests
- Refactor common fixture code
- Declare, prepare, assert
- Test by method, state or scenario
- Asserting compile-time constraints
Common Refactorings
- Renaming variables, functions, classes and headers
- Restructuring class hierarchies by extracting interface classes, base classes and derived classes
- Partitioning classes by extracting classes and functions
- Changing private representation
Decoupling Techniques
- Unmanaged dependencies
- Test-driven decoupling
- Layering
- Eliminating cyclic dependencies
- Mock objects
- Eliminating Singletons, statics and other globals
- Testing I/O
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