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Learn Kotlin Programming - Second Edition

By : Stephen Samuel, Stefan Bocutiu
Book Image

Learn Kotlin Programming - Second Edition

By: Stephen Samuel, Stefan Bocutiu

Overview of this book

Kotlin is a general-purpose programming language used for developing cross-platform applications. Complete with a comprehensive introduction and projects covering the full set of Kotlin programming features, this book will take you through the fundamentals of Kotlin and get you up to speed in no time. Learn Kotlin Programming covers the installation, tools, and how to write basic programs in Kotlin. You'll learn how to implement object-oriented programming in Kotlin and easily reuse your program or parts of it. The book explains DSL construction, serialization, null safety aspects, and type parameterization to help you build robust apps. You'll learn how to destructure expressions and write your own. You'll then get to grips with building scalable apps by exploring advanced topics such as testing, concurrency, microservices, coroutines, and Kotlin DSL builders. Furthermore, you'll be introduced to the kotlinx.serialization framework, which is used to persist objects in JSON, Protobuf, and other formats. By the end of this book, you'll be well versed with all the new features in Kotlin and will be able to build robust applications skillfully.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Section 1: Fundamental Concepts in Kotlin
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Section 2: Practical Concepts in Kotlin
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Section 3: Advanced Concepts in Kotlin

Table-driven testing

Table driven testing is similar to property-based testing, with the difference being that instead of generators providing random values, the set of input values is manually specified. The way we do this is by declaring a table structure that can be hardcoded into the test or loaded from a file.

The easiest approach is to simply include the table in the test, and this works fine if we have a small range of input values or edge cases that we want to test. For example, we may have a function with three Boolean input values and want to test the combinations. The first step is to define the table that contains the combinations we want to test:

    val table = table( 
      headers("a", "b", "c"), 
      row(true, true, true), 
      row(true, false, true), 
      row(true, false, false) 
    ) 

Notice that we use the headers and row...