The Environmental Vandal

Definition:

• A ‘unit’ test which for various ‘requirements’ starts spilling out into its environment, using and setting environment variables / ports. Running two of these tests simultaneously will cause ‘unavailable port’ exceptions etc.

Also Known As:

• The Local Hero

References:

Quality attributes

• - Code Example

• - Cause and Effect

• - Frequency

• - Refactoring

• Unit testing Anti-patterns catalogue