Programming Throwdown
Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci
173: Mocking and Unit Tests
Intro topic: Headphones
News/Links:
- Texas A&M University Physics Festival
- Rust vs Cpp at Google
- Lars Bergstrom (Google Director of Engineering): Rust teams at Google are as productive as the ones using Go and 2x those using Cpp
- https://youtu.be/6mZRWFQRvmw?t=27012
- Is Cosine Similarity Really About Similarity
- Xz utils supply chain attack
Book of the Show
- Patrick:
- 80/20 Running by Matt Fitzgerald
- https://amzn.to/3xyEKLo
- Jason:
- A Movie Making Nerd
- https://amzn.to/49ycDJj
Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h
Tool of the Show
- Patrick:
- Jason:
Topic: Mocking and Unit Tests
- What are Unit Tests
- Balance between utility, maintenance, and coverage
- Unit Test: testing small functions
- Regression Test: Testing larger functions
- System Test: End-to-end testing of programs
- What are mocks & fakes
- When to use mock vs. fake
- Mocking libraries in various languages