Equality Sledgehammer Assertion

Definition:

• where the interesting behaviour we are trying to prove is a subset of asserting the equality of everything, for example just knowing the count would be enough, but we assert all values in all rows – don’t go too far, through, and end up with a Blinkered Assertion – the likely cause of this smell is lack of imagination when writing an assertion and just landing on equals

References:

Quality attributes

• - Code Example

• - Cause and Effect

• - Frequency

• - Refactoring

• Test Smells - The Coding Craftsman