Effective Unit and Integration Testing in Scala

Beginner

37 Lessons

12h

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Explanations

This course includes

3 Assessments

78 Playgrounds

13 Illustrations

This course includes

3 Assessments

78 Playgrounds

13 Illustrations

Course Overview

Testing is a fundamental part of writing software. Tests should be written with as much care as we put into designing and coding our applications. Still, writing clean and well-organized test cases can be difficult. In many cases, their quality is lower than that of the rest of the application. This can seriously impact the overall quality and maintainability of the project in the long run. The focus of this course is on unit and integration tests in Scala. First, you’ll learn about the most famous testing...Show More

TAKEAWAY SKILLS

Unit Testing

Testing Via Docker

What You'll Learn

A working knowledge of ScalaTest and its best practices

An understanding of property-based testing

An understanding of mocking and test doubles

Hands-on experience with mocking infrastructural dependencies via Docker containers

The ability to design and write effective tests in Scala

Course Content

Introduction

Course Objectives and Prerequisites

Types of Tests

Brief Introduction to Scala and sbt

What Is Scala and When Should We Use It?What Is the Scala Build Tool?Project Layout

Writing Tests with ScalaTest

Meet ScalaTest Choosing a Testing Style Assertions Writing Human-Readable Assertions with Matchers Collection-Based Matchers Quiz: ScalaTest Basics Custom Matchers Handling Exceptions and Compilation Errors Adding Human-Readable Information Fixtures Quiz: ScalaTest Proficiency Testing Asynchronous Code Using the Eventually Trait Testing Private Methods and Nested Properties Syntactic Sugar for Common Scenarios Tagging and Ignoring Tests Quiz: ScalaTest Advanced

Quiz: ScalaTest

Assessment

Mocking with ScalaMock

What Do We Need Mocks For?Meet Mockito Mocking Functions and Traits Mocking Classes Mocking Objects

Quiz: Mocking

Assessment

Property-Based Testing with ScalaCheck

What’s a Property?Table-Driven Property Checking Generators in ScalaCheck Generator-Driven Property Checking with ScalaCheck Checking Stateful Properties with ScalaCheck

Quiz: Property-Based Testing

Assessment

Mocking External Services with TestContainers-scala

4 Lessons

Conclusion

1 Lesson

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