"Quickly Testing Legacy Code" at CPPP 2019

Contents

• Introduction
• About the talk
• ApprovalTests.cpp code samples

Introduction

Code samples and information for my talk "Quickly Testing Legacy Code" at CPPP 2019.

The samples here demonstrate use of ApprovalTests.cpp, which is a new C++ implementation of Llewellyn Falco's Approval Tests approach to testing legacy code.

About the talk

• Abstract: Quickly Testing Legacy Code
• Video:
• Slides: PowerPoint
• Slides: PDF (including some more detailed slides that were hidden both in the talk and in the Powerpoint version above)
• Code: Github (here)

ApprovalTests.cpp code samples

Purpose of the sub-directories in this repo:

• demo_approvals_and_catch2/
  • Some example uses of ApprovalTests.cpp with the Catch2 test framework, with detailed explanatory comments in the code.
• demo_approvals_and_googletest/
  • Some example uses of ApprovalTests.cpp with the Google Test framework, with detailed explanatory comments in the code.
• gilded_rose_refactoring_kata/
  • A worked example of the cpp version of Emily Bache's GildedRose Refactoring Kata