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Test-Driven Development with C++

Test-Driven Development with C++

By : Abdul Wahid Tanner
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Test-Driven Development with C++

Test-Driven Development with C++

4.5 (2)
By: Abdul Wahid Tanner

Overview of this book

Modern, standard C++ is all that is needed to create a small and practical testing framework that will improve the design of any project. This allows you to think about how the code will be used, which is the first step in designing intuitive interfaces. TDD is a modern balanced software development approach that helps to create maintainable applications, provide modularity in design, and write minimal code that drastically reduces defects. With the help of this book, you'll be able to continue adding value when designs need to change by ensuring that the changes don't break existing tests. In this book, you will use test-driven development (TDD) to gain practical skills by writing a simple testing framework and then using it to drive the design of a logging library. The book will help you enhance your software development skills with test cases. You'll understand how to design and implement test cases. The chapters will also show you how to utilize the TDD approach to be more productive in software development than attempting to code in large unstructured steps. By the end of this book, you'll have gained knowledge of TDD and testing and also built a working logging library with unique features not found in other libraries.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Part 1: Testing MVP
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Part 2: Using TDD to Create a Logging Library
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Part 3: Extending the TDD Library to Support the Growing Needs of the Logging Library

Adding timestamps

A single log file might provide some value with just messages, but recording the date and time of each log message makes it much more valuable. And once we start working with multiple log files from different micro-services, the need to order the log messages by time becomes critical.

It’s fairly simple to add timestamps. All we need to do is get the current time, format it into a standard timestamp that eliminates misunderstanding between the year, month, and day, and then send the timestamp to the log along with the message. The caller doesn’t need to do anything.

It’s also difficult to test directly to make sure it works. We can manually open the log file and see the timestamps; that will be enough for now. We’re not going to add any new tests for the timestamps.

All we need to do is modify Log.h so it looks like this:

#include <chrono>
#include <ctime>
#include <fstream>
#include <iomanip>
#include...
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