Test Smell: Irrelevant Information

A well-abstracted test emphasizes everything that is important to understand and deemphasizes anything that’s not. The data used in a test should help tell a story.

Sometimes, we’re forced to supply data to get code to compile, even though that data is irrelevant to the test at hand. For example, a method might take additional arguments that have no impact on the test.

Magic literal and meaningful names

Magic literals are literals used arbitrarily, without a clear explanation of their meaning. Magic literals are considered poor practice because they reduce ...