Effective Unit and Integration Testing in Scala

Gain insights into effective unit and integration testing in Scala. Learn about ScalaTest, Mockito, ScalaCheck, and Docker/TestContainers to enhance testing quality and maintainability.

Beginner

37 Lessons

12h

Certificate of Completion

Gain insights into effective unit and integration testing in Scala. Learn about ScalaTest, Mockito, ScalaCheck, and Docker/TestContainers to enhance testing quality and maintainability.

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This course includes

3 Assessments

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This course includes

3 Assessments

78 Playgrounds

Course Overview

Testing is a fundamental part of writing software. Tests should be written with as much care as we put into designing and coding our applications. Still, writing clean and well-organized test cases can be difficult. In many cases, their quality is lower than that of the rest of the application. This can seriously impact the overall quality and maintainability of the project in the long run. The focus of this course is on unit and integration tests in Scala. First, you’ll learn about the most famous testing...Show More

TAKEAWAY SKILLS

Unit Testing

Testing Via Docker

What You'll Learn

A working knowledge of ScalaTest and its best practices

An understanding of property-based testing

An understanding of mocking and test doubles

Hands-on experience with mocking infrastructural dependencies via Docker containers

The ability to design and write effective tests in Scala

What You'll Learn

A working knowledge of ScalaTest and its best practices

Course Content

Introduction

Get familiar with the significance of testing in Scala, focusing on test types and best practices.

Course Objectives and Prerequisites

Types of Tests

Brief Introduction to Scala and sbt

Look at Scala's paradigms, sbt's build capabilities, and effective project layouts for testing.

What Is Scala and When Should We Use It?What Is the Scala Build Tool?Project Layout

Writing Tests with ScalaTest

Work your way through writing expressive test cases using ScalaTest’s diverse styles and tools.

Meet ScalaTest Choosing a Testing Style Assertions Writing Human-Readable Assertions with Matchers Collection-Based Matchers Quiz: ScalaTest Basics Custom Matchers Handling Exceptions and Compilation Errors Adding Human-Readable Information Fixtures Quiz: ScalaTest Proficiency Testing Asynchronous Code Using the Eventually Trait Testing Private Methods and Nested Properties Syntactic Sugar for Common Scenarios Tagging and Ignoring Tests Quiz: ScalaTest Advanced

Quiz: ScalaTest

Assessment

Mocking with ScalaMock

Grasp the fundamentals of using ScalaMock for effective unit testing in Scala.

What Do We Need Mocks For?Meet Mockito Mocking Functions and Traits Mocking Classes Mocking Objects

Quiz: Mocking

Assessment

Property-Based Testing with ScalaCheck

Take a closer look at property-based testing concepts, table-driven checks, and ScalaCheck integration.

What’s a Property?Table-Driven Property Checking Generators in ScalaCheck Generator-Driven Property Checking with ScalaCheck Checking Stateful Properties with ScalaCheck

Quiz: Property-Based Testing

Assessment

Mocking External Services with TestContainers-scala

4 Lessons

Tackle mock external services in integration testing using TestContainers-scala and Docker.

Conclusion

1 Lesson

Build on key ScalaTest practices, advanced features, ScalaCheck, Mockito, and Docker-based integration testing.

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