⭐ The best practices for naming tests

Intro

The nomenclature must be consistent and clear throughout the solution, so we must take care of this from the beginning.

Prelude

Imagine a huge project where each developer writes tests descriptions in their own way. It will be complete mess. That's why it's a good idea to adopt some rules and stick to them from the beginning of the project

Some consistent rules

Take a look at the following example:

We can read the following descriptions as one sentence: Pizza meets standards when size is between 30-40cm or Pizza meets standards when plate size is equal to 30cm (look at nested describe block). Thanks to that we are able to read tests as documentation and immediately understand the testing case.

We used the following rules to build the above cases:

Summary

Consistency is very important! If you take care of such things from the beginning you will make your project much easier to understand and more enjoyable to work with.

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