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Approval Testing

Summary

In this course you will learn about text-based approval testing using the "Approvals" tool.

99 Minutes

Max 100 attendees

Online

unit-testing, test-design, technical-testing, regression-testing, developer-tools, automation, agile

By the end of this course, you'll be able to:

Describe the characteristics of Approval Testing.
Describe Text-based and Pixel-based approaches.
Compare Approval testing with assertion-based testing and explain in which situations it has advantages.
Use the Approvals framework to write test cases for existing code where a Printer already exists.
Use a diff tool to evaluate approval test failures and approve new results when appropriate.

Description

Approval Testing is an automation technique that can be more effective than traditional assertion-based test automation. For example when:

The expected result is hard to calculate in advance, but easy to verify afterwards.
The expected result has many aspects and details which are a lot of work to assert individually.
You want to get high regression test coverage for existing code relatively quickly.

In this course you will learn about text-based approval testing using the tool “Approvals”. (We’ll use the Java version but it is also available in other languages such as C#, Python and C++).

Meet the Instructor

Emily Bache

Technical Agile Coach

Emily is a long-term proponent of agile development practices like Test-Driven Development, and is one of the pioneers of the professional developer teaching forum called ”Coding Dojo”. Emily is an author with Pluralsight, a contributor to the book “97 things every Java programmer should know”, and a regular conference speaker.

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