especially if the code has been written in a way that makes it difficult to write a robust test.
I definitely deserve a lot of blame for designing my primary project in making hard to test. So, word to the wise (though it doesn’t take a genius to figure this out), don’t tell two fresh grads and a 1 YoE junior to “break the legacy app into microservices” with minimal oversight. If I did things again, I still think the only sane decision would be to cancel the project as soon as possible. x.x
I actually was using a mock webserver with the expected request/response, which sounds like what you’re getting at. Still felt fiddly though and doesn’t solve the huge mock data problem which is more an architecture design failing.
I’ve mostly gotten away from testing huge methods with a seemingly arbitrary numbers in favor of testing small methods with slightly less arbitrary numbers, which feels like a pretty big improvement.
How are you gonna get good at it if you don’t do it! :D