How do you name your unit tests?

4	What conventions do you use to name your test classes and unit tests? nunit unit-testing programming asked Dec 03 '09 at 01:40 leypascua 1.6k●1●15

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I'm not saying this because it's "best practice" or so, but it works for me. Usually when I'm in the early stages of coding I have simple tests (unit tests!) that test only a specific class. So most likely I have one test per class. So if my class name is "FileReader" I have a test class named "FileReaderTest." Then each method of my test class would test a particular functionality or behaviour of the class. I kinda name my tests with a "Should" -- similar to BDD. So it says "ShouldOpenFile" or "ShouldThrowExceptionIfFileNotFound" etc. I stick to CamelCase because that's how .NET code generally looks like. If I use ruby_case or some other convention, my code will stick out like a sore thumb and probably drive other developers in my team away.

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answered Dec 03 '09 at 10:21

cruizer
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I prefer using ruby case because my eye hurts when reading long camel cased method names. And because many of the devs in the team don't write proper unit tests either way, it's not really an issue.

(Dec 11 '09 at 05:29) Jon Limjap

Well it depends on what language you are using but basically if you have a class named Person you usually name your test class (unit or integration tests) as PersonTest or TestPerson but the former is well-recommended.

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answered Dec 10 '09 at 19:08

bobsantos
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Oh I just realized that cruizer has an example already. Must be tired.. but again you may want to look for specific conventions for the language you are using.

(Dec 10 '09 at 19:11) bobsantos

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