CLion is great for refactoring C++ code to make it more maintainable.
But as someone asked in Arne Mertz's "Refactoring C++ Code" webinar, "What to do if we don’t have tests on the project and so can’t check the changes introduced by refactorings easily?"
Timeline:
00:00 Webinar begins
01:53 An Introduction from Clare
04:15 Let’s look at the code
07:24 Dependencies used in the webinar
08:50 Adding Catch2 tests to the project
17:22 Using Approval Test
26:38 Summing up the Approval Test approach
32:45 First QA session
44:14 Using built-in Code Coverage in CLion
47:15 C/C++ Code Coverage plugin for CLion
51:00 Improving tests
01:00:23 Summary from Clare
01:05:55 Second QA session
01:08:43 Wrapping up the webinar
Categories: #webinar #CLion #cpp
Hosted by: Anastasia Kazakova, Phil Nash
About the Presenter:
Clare Macrae is an independent consultant, helping teams streamline their work with legacy and hard-to-test C++ and Qt code. She offers training courses, and consultancy work, to show how to test difficult code easily.
She has worked in software development for over 30 years, and in C++ for over 20 years, specialising in crystal structure visualisation.
She is a core contributor to the Approval Tests for C++ library, which makes it really easy to get legacy code under test.
Blog post: https://blog.jetbrains.com/clion/2021/02/testing-superpowers-webinar-recording/
