FoolsGambit

6y

So today was my first time combining mocking, depenancy injection and promises. I thought I had a relatively good understanding of everything until I started writing tests - now my head is spinning.

The actual coding has gone really well - implimented the strategy pattern so I can reuse my code whenever I want to make an API call - and everything is nicely decoupled so it should be easy to test. In theory.

If anyone here happens to write tests for a living, I have a new found respect for you today...

Time for a beer 😅

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at least my code works

testing hell

tdd

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ShotgunSurgeon

1033

6y

Try it with TDD if you haven't tried it before, it will definitely change how you write the code in the first place. Still I have to admit that I hate writing tests for promise packed code.
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FoolsGambit

127

6y

@loebkes I usually TDD my code, but I've been having a bit of trouble since I started working with API's, so I'm trying to pick up some new patterns to help write code that's a bit easier to test.

I just can't seem to get comfortable with testing JavaScript and the way code is organised in Express after being taught with Sinatra/Rails.

Yet. I'll get there eventually 😆
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ShotgunSurgeon

1033

6y

@FoolsGambit I have my problems with Javascript TDD too. It's easy at first until you get service calls and promises all over the place. It's easy to get to mocking hell too

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