Flow Your Tests Like Your Code
My co-worker Belinda Liu turned to me and said, “I don’t like these tests at all; they’re hard to follow, and I’m not sure what they’re testing.” I looked at the tests that I had spent much of yesterday afternoon working on. She was right: they were hard to follow (even for me, who had written some of them!). How had we gotten here? Our code was straightforward, but our tests were byzantine (excessively complicated). We identified two problems: ...