"Your Tests are Lying To You - Improving your testing by testing what really matters"

Open Source 101 2019

Abstract

Do your tests keep you up at night? In this talk we’ll remove the mystery and fear around testing by understanding what a good test looks like. Through real world examples we’ll explore ways to improve your overall test coverage by identifying key areas in your application, unique edge cases and more. We’ll use some uncommon tools and approaches, like mutation testing, to literally test our tests and produce a much better test result. I’ll show you ways to test that actually matter. You will be able to tell a good test from a bad one and know which type of test to use for each scenario