Glossary
Approving Results
Approved File
Chain of responsibility (pattern)
Code Coverage
Comparator
See Custom Comparators.
Continuous Integration
Convention over Configuration
Instead of asking the user to specify everything, we make assumptions based on common patterns, so code usually just works “out of the box”. This tends to dramatically reduce the amount of clutter, makes things easier, and reduces the amount of surprises.
Custom Asserts
Diff Tool
Edge Case
Fake It Till You Make It
Happy Path
Kata
Koans
Mutation Testing
Namer
Principle of Least Surprise
RAII (Resource acquisition is initialization)
This is a pattern where your object constructor opens a resource, such as memory, and your object destructor closes the resource.
This is also known as “Scope based resource management”.
Received File
Reporter
See Reporters.
See Using sub-directories for approved files
See Features - whose sections need to be moved around
Stringification
See String conversions.
System Under Test
The area of the production code that you are testing. See System Under Test.
Test Framework
test && commit || revert (TCR)
Writer
Yak Shaving
Sayings
The tests test the code, and the code tests the tests
Test until bored