From the course: Software Testing Foundations: Continuous Testing and DevOps
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How to make your tests independent - Jenkins Tutorial
From the course: Software Testing Foundations: Continuous Testing and DevOps
How to make your tests independent
- [Instructor] So, let's talk about how to make your tests independent. In order to make your tests run well in a continuous integration environment, you need to make them run independently. An independent test is one that's responsible for its own state and data. Why? Let's take a library application as an example. What are the important workflows of a library application? Users need to be able to search for books, sign in to their accounts, and check out the books they want. So for a test to be independent, we can't really rely on there being a user and a set of books already generated in our application. Instead, we'd want to test workflow to look like this. Create a user, create a book, log in as the user, find the book, and check out the book. Why would you want one test to be responsible for all of this? It is a pretty lengthy test, to be fair. We'll talk more later about how to keep your tests short, while…
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