Test Smells
Recent Changes
| Hard-to-Test Code | Category: Test Smells | 11 June 2007 |
| Code is difficult to test. |
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| Production Bugs | Category: Test Smells | 18 February 2007 |
| We find too many bugs during formal test or in production. |
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| Fragile Test | Category: Test Smells | 18 February 2007 |
| A test fails to compile or run when the SUT is changed in ways that
do not affect the part the test is exercising. |
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| Test Code Duplication | Category: Test Smells | 18 February 2007 |
| The same test code is repeated many times. |
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| Test Logic in Production | Category: Test Smells | 18 February 2007 |
| The code that is put into production contains logic that should be
exercised only during tests. |
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| Erratic Test | Category: Test Smells | 4 February 2007 |
| One or more tests are behaving erratically; sometimes they pass and sometimes
they fail. |
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| Obscure Test | Category: Test Smells | 20 December 2006 |
| It is difficult to understand the test at a glance. |
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| Assertion Roulette | Category: Test Smells | 31 October 2006 |
| It is hard to tell which of several assertions within the same test method
caused a test failure. |
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| Conditional Test Logic | Category: Test Smells | 31 October 2006 |
| A test contains code that may or may not be executed |
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| Slow Tests | Category: Test Smells | 11 October 2006 |
| The tests take too long to run. |
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| Developers Not Writing Tests | Category: Test Smells | 9 October 2006 |
| Developers aren't writing automated tests. |
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