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Testing Complex Systems with Maintainable Test Suites – Podcast
- variedthoughts 7y agoCreating maintainable test suites for complex systems. The episode describes some complexities involved with hardware testing, then shares techniques for shifting complexity out of the test cases. * quick overview of what test instruments are * discussion of API and communication with instruments * techniques for shifting complexity out of test cases These techniques should apply to all test suites dealing with complex systems: * Creating test cases that are easy to read and debug and tell a story about what is being tested. * Pushing setup complexity into fixtures. * Pushing lengthy repetitive API call sets into helper functions. * Using stable, documented, interfaces.