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Re:Zen and the Art of Unit Testing by beaconstudios on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @02:27PM (#13878498)
Testing that function would be a matter of mocking out the database with a class that can emulate the type of failure that would trigger your exception.
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Re:Zen and the Art of Unit Testing by cytzol on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @03:04PM (#13878821)
Ooooh, yes. Testing error-handling code is another thing I keep on forgetting to do.
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Re:Zen and the Art of Unit Testing by beaconstudios on Thursday March 16, 2017 @05:52AM (#13883762)
it's almost more worthwhile than testing your happy path - when things go wrong you want to have guarantees that they'll be handled correctly and not kill your server.
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