Introduction I recently installed Audacia.Seed onto a project for the first time. I’ve used it for setting up test data before, but have never set it up from scratch, and was pleased to find it was a pretty easy experience. However, there was one fly...
When fixing bugs I usually try to reproduce the bug with a failing unit test before fixing it, assuming the bug is within some code that can be covered by unit tests. However, occasionally I implement the fix before a test is in place, usually when I...
I sometimes hear people object to writing unit tests on the basis that most test failures are false negatives, and that the problems typically turn out to be in the tests rather than the system under test. I think this largely comes down to how the t...
Two ways I use unit tests while fixing bugs
The problem I'd developed some functionality which meant changes to pricing needed approval. I wrote the code with a suite a unit tests and sent it for QA. The tester found a very simple bug - when rejecting a price change, the price was still change...
