Re: Kata for test smells

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:23 PM, johantoutsimplement <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I've been asked to teach test smells Thursday (!) and I'm looking for a
> piece of test code that has a good number of them in order to use it for
> identifying and then removing the test smells. I plan to make the learners
> work on their proper test code but I'd like them to warm up on one or two
> "distilled" examples first. And I'm thinking someone has already done that
> before and might have it lying around somewhere.
>
> I did find the introduction example in Meszaros book "xUnit Test Patterns"
> which could do. But I was hoping for some choice.
>
>
>
There are a number of simple examples of how difficulties in the test drive
a change in the code in Mauricio Aniche's book.

http://www.casadocodigo.com.br/products/livro-tdd

Unfortunately this book is only available in Portuguese...

Another thing you could do is try this exercise:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/testdrivendevelopment/message/35005

The tests that this problem drives you to write will have problems... that
you can then talk about.

Matteo


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