Category: Practices

  • The Beer Belly testing anti-pattern

    The Beer Belly testing anti-pattern

    The ‘Testing Pyramid’ is often trotted out to illustrate a suggested distribution of tests. More small “unit” tests; less deep “end-to-end” tests. And various people have observed common anti-patterns, specifically the Ice Cream Cone, where there are lots of end-2-end tests and hardly any unit tests.   The anti-pattern that I see most often is…