Talk in English - UK at Longhorn PHP 2025
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Main Ballroom
View Slides: https://www.daveliddament.co.uk/talks/assert-true-is-decoupled-my-tests-longhorn.pdf
Short URL: https://joind.in/talk/643c9
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“Houston we have a problem! This change you want… Well it’s one small change for the codebase but one giant change to the test suite!”
We all know why tests are great. But every once in a while we just wish they’d never been written. One case when test regret occurs is when we want to alter our functionality slightly but in doing so half the test suite goes from green to red.
This talk will investigate why this happens. In particular it looks at the coupling between tests and the code under test. We’ll investigate ways we can reduce this coupling and make out test suites more resilient to change.
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An hour full of totally reasonable testing strategies that focuses largely on the often overlooked integration test portion of the test pyramid.
This was a very helpful overview of how to decouple our test code from our application code using various methods. The Object Mother/Test Builder pattern solves a huge problem we have with our test suite, and I look forward to telling everyone who will listen about it.
Practical, real-world problems need different solutions than greenfield indeed.