Programming Throwdown

173: Mocking and Unit Tests


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173: Mocking and Unit Tests


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News/Links:

  • Texas A&M University Physics Festival
    • https://physicsfestival.tamu.edu/
  • Rust vs Cpp at Google
    • Lars Bergstrom (Google Director of Engineering): Rust teams at Google are as productive as the ones using Go and 2x those using Cpp
    • https://youtu.be/6mZRWFQRvmw?t=27012
  • Is Cosine Similarity Really About Similarity
    • https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05440
  • Xz utils supply chain attack
    • Andres Freund at Microsoft
    • https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/04/what-we-know-about-the-xz-utils-backdoor-that-almost-infected-the-world/


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Tool of the Show

  • Patrick: 
    • Shapez Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.playdigious.shapez&hl=en_US&gl=US
    • Shapez iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/shapez-factory-game/id6450830779
  • Jason: 
    • Dwarf Fortress
    • https://store.steampowered.com/app/975370/Dwarf_Fortress/


Topic: Mocking and Unit Tests

  • What are Unit Tests
    • Balance between utility, maintenance, and coverage
    • Unit Test: testing small functions
    • Regression Test: Testing larger functions
    • System Test: End-to-end testing of programs
  • What are mocks & fakes
  • When to use mock vs. fake
  • Mocking libraries in various languages
    • Python: https://docs.python.org/3/library/unittest.mock.html
    • Java: https://github.com/mockito/mockito
    • C++:  https://github.com/google/googletest


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