Dan Alexandru Hintea/ February 25, 2020/ Testing/ 0 comments

This is a naming I used for playing with the abstraction of Date and Time in testing scenarios.

Actually, at the moment I’m writing this, I already have an even better naming. But that’s for another post.

[TestMethod]
public void AppSurgeCostCalculator_CorrectlyCalculatesSurgeSpans()
{
    [...]
    
    DateTime bigBang = new System.DateTime(2019, 2, 1, 10, 0, 0);
    DateTime activatePaidSubscriptionAt = new System.DateTime(2019, 2, 1, 11, 30, 0);
    
    using (TimeMachine(bigBang))
    {
        CreateTrialSubscription();
        
        [...]
    }

    using (TimeMachine(activatePaidSubscriptionAt))
    {
        CreateAndValidateClientPaymentMethod();
        
        [...]
    }
    
    //Assert expectations
    
    [...] 
}

P.S. I also enjoyed H.G.Wells’ book and movie a lot! It’s what I thought of when I came up with this naming.