Unit Test Hands-on Workshop

Hands-on training explaining the techniques and best practices required to provide a safety net with unit tests. 

This unit test hands-on training takes a practice-oriented approach and explores the techniques and best practices required to provide a safety net for existing applications. Half of the training consists of applied exercises on a consistent topic and offers learners insight into all aspects of unit testing based on specific exercises.

Contents

Basics

• Understanding unit tests
• Identifying the tools used

Test-first approach

• Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Behavior Driven Development (BDD)

Dealing with dependencies

• Test doubles/mocks
• Dependency injection

Unit tests in a legacy environment

• Legacy code
• Code coverage
• Clean code
• Refactoring
• Golden Master

To make the implementation of unit tests as smooth as possible, trainers will adapt exercises to a learner’s programming language. Additionally, learners receive a selection of tools adapted to their organization.

Following the workshop, coaching days are available. The trainer will focus on specific challenges a learner may face when implementing workshop content in everyday life.

Target audience

• Developers
• Testers

Prerequisites

Experience in software development.

Further information

All materials are offered digitally. Copies of any relevant standards must be provided by the learner.

For the training exercises a laptop is necessary. Trainers and learners will work together to define the development environment.