Re: Test code is worth the space

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 04:54:07PM +0100, Greg Stark wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 2:16 PM, David Fetter <david@fetter.org> wrote:
> > I'm given to understand that this tight coupling is necessary for
> > performance.  Are you saying that it could be unwound, or that
> > testing strategies mostly need to take it into account, or...?
>
> I'm just saying that we shouldn't expect to find a magic bullet test
> framework that solves all these problems. Without restructuring
> code, which I don't think is really feasible, we won't be able to
> have good unit test coverage for most existing code.
>
> It might be more practical to start using such a new tool for new
> code only. Then the new code could be structured in ways that allow
> the environment to be mocked more easily and the results observed
> more easily.

Great!

Do we have examples of such tools and code bases structured to
accommodate them that we'd like to use for reference, or at least for
inspiration?