Toward Testability

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• Write unit tests!" they said... "It will be great!" they said...

I'm sure you've heard that before. Just write unit tests, and your life as a developer will be so much easier. You'll have an unbelievable level of confidence in your code, and your users will love you.

Maybe you believed them, and gave it your best shot, only to find your code is just too hard to write unit tests for. After a valiant effort, you concluded that unit tests are probably great for certain kinds of codebases, but you don't work in a codebase like that.

In this talk, I will show you how you can take your code that is hard to test and do some refactoring that will make it far more unit testable. I'm not going to try to get you to 100% unit test coverage. I'm not even going to try to sell you on why you should write any unit tests. I'm simply going to show you how you can take the code you work with every day and move it toward testability.

• John Sloan is a polyglot developer currently living in Franklin, TN. Over the better part of the last fifteen years, John has written code using Visual Basic, Pick/BASIC, Java, Ruby, Javascript, and is now writing AWS Lambdas using Python at XOi Technologies in Nashville.

• Location
5501 Virginia Way Suite 120, Brentwood, TN 37027

• Agenda
6:30: Eat and Hang out
6:45: Welcome, announcements
6:50: Talk
7:45 Wrap-up
8:00 Meetup ends

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