我正致力于将单元测试集成到我所在团队的开发过程中,有一些人对此持怀疑态度。有什么好方法可以让团队中持怀疑态度的开发人员相信单元测试的价值?在我的具体情况下,我们将在添加功能或修复错误时添加单元测试。不幸的是,我们的代码库并不容易进行测试。


当前回答

作为一名物理专业的学生,我非常有动力去证明我的代码是可以正常工作的。您可以从逻辑上证明这一点,随着实现变得更加复杂,难度会急剧增加,或者您可以通过良好的测试对功能进行(尽可能接近的)经验证明。

如果不提供函数的逻辑证明,就必须进行测试。唯一的选择是说“我认为代码可以工作....”

其他回答

偶尔,我自己或我的同事会花几个小时来研究一个不太明显的错误,一旦发现了错误的原因,90%的情况下代码都没有经过单元测试。单元测试并不存在,因为开发人员为了节省时间而偷工减料,但随后却失去了这一点和更多的调试。

花少量的时间来编写单元测试可以节省未来调试的时间。

多年来,我一直试图说服人们,他们需要为自己的代码编写单元测试。无论他们是先编写测试(如TDD)还是在编写功能之后,我总是试图向他们解释对代码进行单元测试的所有好处。几乎没有人反对我。你不能否认一些显而易见的事情,任何聪明的人都会看到单元测试和TDD的好处。

单元测试的问题在于它需要行为上的改变,而要改变人们的行为是非常困难的。用语言,你会让很多人同意你的观点,但你不会看到他们做事的方式有太多变化。

你必须通过行动来说服人们。你的个人成功会比你的争论吸引更多的人。如果他们看到你不只是在谈论单元测试或TDD,而是在做你鼓吹的事情,而且你是成功的,人们就会试图模仿你。

You should also take on a lead role because no one writes unit test right the first time, so you may need to coach them on how to do it, show them the way, and the tools available to them. Help them while they write their first tests, review the tests they write on their own, and show them the tricks, idioms and patterns you've learned through your own experiences. After a while, they will start seeing the benefits on their own, and they will change their behavior to incorporate unit tests or TDD into their toolbox.

改变不会在一夜之间发生,但只要有一点耐心,你就可能实现你的目标。

单元测试可以帮助您以更少的错误发布软件,同时降低总体开发成本。您可以点击链接阅读更多关于单元测试的好处

Yes - Unit Testing is definitely worth the effort but you should know it's not a silver bullet. Unit Testing is work and you will have to work to keep the test updated and relevant as code changes but the value offered is worth the effort you have to put in. The ability to refactor with impunity is a huge benefit as you can always validate functionality by running your tests after any change code. The trick is to not get too hung up on exactly the unit-of-work you're testing or how you are scaffolding test requirements and when a unit-test is really a functional test, etc. People will argue about this stuff for hours on end and the reality is that any testing you do as your write code is better than not doing it. The other axiom is about quality and not quantity - I have seen code-bases with 1000's of test that are essentially meaningless as the rest don't really test anything useful or anything domain specific like business rules, etc of the particular domain. I've also seen codebases with 30% code coverage but the tests were relevant, meaningful and really awesome as they tested the core functionality of the code it was written for and expressed how the code should be used.

在探索新的框架或代码库时,我最喜欢的一个技巧是为“它”编写单元测试,以发现事物是如何工作的。这是一个学习新事物的好方法,而不是阅读枯燥的文档:)

单元测试绝对是值得付出努力的。不幸的是,您选择了一个困难的(但不幸的是常见的)场景来实现它。

从单元测试中获得的最大好处是从头开始使用它——在一些精选的小项目中,我有幸在实现类之前编写单元测试(此时接口已经完成)。通过适当的单元测试,您可以在类还处于婴儿期时就发现并修复它们,而不是在将来毫无疑问会集成到复杂系统中的任何地方。

如果您的软件是完全面向对象的,那么您应该能够在类级别上添加单元测试,而不需要太多的努力。如果您没有那么幸运,您仍然应该尽可能地尝试合并单元测试。确保当你添加新功能时,新部分都有清晰的接口,你会发现单元测试让你的工作变得更容易。