19: Dave Marshall - Designing Effective Tests

In this episode, Adam talks to Dave Marshall, testing guru and host of That Podcast. Dave talks to Adam about the upcoming Mockery 1.0 release and some interesting API changes destined for 2.0. They also talk about how fakes can improve your tests, fixtures vs. factories, spec-style vs xUnit style test frameworks, and mutation testing.

Show Notes

This episode is brought to you by Hired.

• Dave's Blog
• That Podcast
• Mockery on GitHub
• Uncle Bob on writing your own test doubles
• Behat
• Humbug mutation testing library
• Sponsored by Hired

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A podcast for developers interested in building great software products. Every episode, Adam Wathan is joined by a guest to talk about everything from product design and user experience to unit testing and system administration.