CR plan: Testing 2024 March

Necessary prep:

Q: from learner to guide as starting point
A: what the guide might s

Schedule:

9:00 Motivation
- Try to be quick
- Q: "Before you learned automated testing, how did you normally test?"
  - A: "Well, I'd try running it, see waht happened. Run until I got what I was expecting, for a case I could predict"
- C: "And then you don't do that again. How do you know it didn't change later and break? That's what automatic testing is all about"
- Do first sections
- Discussion
- Then jump to "what should you do", don't go into details.
9:10 Testing locally
- Get straight to the example Discuss it and go into terminal.
- Q: "How do you automate testing? Is it hard?"
9:35 Automatic testing
- Q: "How do you avoid forgetting to run the tests?"
9:55 Discussion
10:00 Break
10:10 (continue automatic testing if needed)
10:10 Test design
- Spend lots of time here.
- Q: "What everyone wants to know is, is it hard to write tests? What if you really don't know the correct answer?"
- Q: "I guess we'll see this later, but: can you give one example of one of these tests where the result is stochastic, so that there is no one right answer?"
- Give the introducion
- Ask for what is hard to test
- Start writing tests for what we see here.
10:45 Discussion
11:00 End

Modular Code Development

  Plotting function

  Reduce side effects

  Move to a script