Re: Unity3d and TDD

I've only done a small amount of Unity and didn't do any TDD there (I know,
my bad), but I would take the same approach I would if it was a Swing or
Android app - move as much code as possible to be agnostic of the
infrastructure it is running in and test that in isolation.

I would have a series of ports, a la ports/adapters, that allow the domain
logic to communicate to/from the Unity layer and have the domain logic only
be aware of those, then provide adapters into Unity.  The biggest downside
I see from this is that it will undoubtedly bloat your code and could
_potentially_ have a performance impact depending on the type of game
you're making.

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 10:47 AM, 'Donaldson, John' [email protected]
[testdrivendevelopment] <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Yes, I was just testing stuff I was delegating to. Not grasping the thorny
> MonoBehaviour.
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> I did see somewhere that Model-View-Controller and Dependency Injection
> could let you TDD into MonoBehaviour sub-classes.
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> Quite a good discussion here:
> http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/test-driven-development.35901/
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> J.
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> I have no idea about how Unity works, but perhaps instead of writing your
> behaviour in a class that extends monobehavior, you could create a pure-C#
> object and delegate all interesting stuff to it.
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> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Avi Kessner [email protected]<mailto:
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> How do you make classes that extend monobehavior testable? Or maybe I'm
> just not far enough into the project where I can use composition on those
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> On Mar 22, 2016 11:04 AM, "'Donaldson, John' [email protected]
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> Avi - nice to see you're still out there :-) I've played around a bit with
> Unity and took the weak position vis-à-vis TDD.
> That is: the visual interface is tested by looking at it and the rest is
> just normal C# code with normal tests.
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> John D.
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