Developers often take liberties when creating data in test files. It's true, the data doesn't matter.
Well, it doesn't matter to machines, but it does to humans.
Just because it's a test program doesn't mean that you should create nonsensical names. Having meaningful names makes it easier to understand the business logic.
Here's a snippet of code from a test file:
EmailLog.create_from_payload( to: [ 'qwe1@example.com',
'qwe2@example.com'],
from: ['support@example.com'])
I am not sure what qwe1
and qwe2
are supposed to mean here. It would be much better if the names were like the ones given below:
EmailLog.create_from_payload( to: [ 'mike@example.com',
'mary@example.com'],
from: ['support@example.com'])
def test_email_is_normalized
user = User.create! email: ' strAngeEmail@example.com'
assert_equal 'strangeemail@example.com', user.email
end
In the above case, it is not clear why the email is strange. A better name would help.
def test_email_is_normalized
user = User.create! email: ' thisIsAMixedCaseEmail@example.com'
assert_equal 'thisisamixedcaseemail@example.com', user.email
end