173: Mocking and Unit Tests

173: Mocking and Unit Tests
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News/Links:
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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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Jason:
Dwarf Fortress
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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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