[LRUG] A question on DRYness on testing methods that get / set state

[Anthony Green]

On 22 Nov 2011, at 11:23, Tim Cowlishaw wrote:
 > I guess this is a bit of a tradeoff, but I'd be curious to know - how
 > do you guys write tests for methods that get or set state? is there a
 > better way than the above?

Spec behaviour, not implementation. I'd have a single example that 
covers the behaviour "when I put a value, get should return that value".

Cheers,
-Tom

+1

A colleague recently ran an Object Calisthenics* Dojo and we came to the 
same conclusions.
Removing direct access to state pushes you to think more about behaviour.

* 
http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2008/11/06/object-calisthenics-first-thoughts/

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