The Path to Approval Testing

You are undoubtedly doing some form of Approval testing already. The most basic form would be writing REQUIRE(42 == 6 * 9), then running it, getting the result 42 != 54 and then changing the code to say REQUIRE(54 == 6 * 9).

This is the path that we commonly see, as people move in to Approval Tests:

• Verify numbers
  • Have lots of numbers, like an array
• Strings - turn the array of numbers in to a string
  • Those strings become long
• Files - Golden Master
  • Managing them - coming up with names
• Some sort of naming convention
• Can be hard to understand what's in the files
  • Start using diff tools
• Start creating custom methods for the things you are testing
  • verifyThing

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