Creating maintainable test suites for complex systems. The episode describes some complexities involved with hardware testing, then shares techniques for shifting complexity out of the test cases.
* quick overview of what test instruments are
* discussion of API and communication with instruments
* techniques for shifting complexity out of test cases
These techniques should apply to all test suites dealing with complex systems:
* Creating test cases that are easy to read and debug and tell a story about what is being tested.
* Pushing setup complexity into fixtures.
* Pushing lengthy repetitive API call sets into helper functions.
* Using stable, documented, interfaces.
* quick overview of what test instruments are * discussion of API and communication with instruments * techniques for shifting complexity out of test cases
These techniques should apply to all test suites dealing with complex systems:
* Creating test cases that are easy to read and debug and tell a story about what is being tested. * Pushing setup complexity into fixtures. * Pushing lengthy repetitive API call sets into helper functions. * Using stable, documented, interfaces.