Cpp_Testing_Techniques_Tips_and_Tricks.md

C++ Testing Techniques Tips and Tricks

• Approval Tests
  • ApprovalTests.cpp
  • ApprovalTests.cpp.StarterProject
  • ApprovalTests.cpp.Qt
  • ApprovalTests.cpp.Qt.StarterProject
  • CppCon talk: Quickly Testing Legacy C++ Code with Approval Tests
• Books
  • The Art of Unit Testing: With Examples in .NET
  • The Art of Unit Testing, Second Edition with examples in C#
  • The Art of Unit Testing, Third Edition with JavaScript examples
• CodeCoverage.cmake
• Coverage-directed fuzzing: "Testing Legacy Code - Fuzzing for Better Input Data" - by Tina Ulbrich and Niel Waldren
• Code Katas - practice exercises
  • Cyber Dojo
  • Emily Bache's GildedRose Refactoring Kata
  • Emily Bache's Katas
• Emily Bache's "Advanced Testing & Refactoring Techniques" series:
  • Part 1: Introducing the Gilded Rose kata and writing test cases using Approval Tests
  • Part 2: Refactoring item logic using ‘lift up conditional’
  • Part 3: Replace Conditional with Polymorphism
• Fuzzing
  • American fuzzy lop
  • libFuzzer
• #include <C++>
• Kevlin Henney's FizzBuzz Trek HD - Property Based Testing
• Qt Applications
  • My references for "Quickly Testing Qt Desktop Applications"
  • Slides for that talk
• RapidCheck - C++ Property Based Testing
• Test Frameworks for C++
  • Catch2 test framework
  • doctest
  • Googletest - Google Testing and Mocking Framework

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