One Team, One Unit
Explore how to create and maintain team standards for unit testing, including test naming, tool usage, and review processes. Understand the benefits and challenges of code reviews and pair programming to enhance test quality and team collaboration in Java projects.
Developers can approach unit testing vary differently:
- Some developers might insist on TDD.
- Some developers might resist unit testing at all costs, producing only the tests that they feel forced to write.
- Some developers might prefer lumping multiple cases into a single test method.
- Some might favor slower integration tests.
It’s important that your team get on the same page. Long debates or continual back-and-forth without resolution are rarely good uses of anyone’s time. Although a team will never agree on everything, you can at least find out what you do agree on and start moving in the direction of increased consensus.
Establishing unit-testing standards
It’s helpful to derive some standards around unit testing. Start small and seek to answer two questions:
- What things do developers feel are wasting the most time of everyone?
- What are simple standards that everyone can quickly agree on?
Seed a bit of discussion, run a quick meeting, and put ...