The format of this week's practical is slightly different from the others. You will be working in your team, but rather than collaborating on the main project, you will be competing against another team. You will be provided with a new repositories specifically for the competition which contains code stubs that require implementation.
Each team will implement the required methods and create unit tests for them. After the session, the tests from one team will be run against the code from a second team. If the code for an issue passes all the tests written by the other team, the first team gets a point; if the code fails one or more tests, the testing team gets a point. The winning team is the one with the most points.
To create your unit tests, your will need to use the xUnit framework which should be already installed.
If you need to create mock objects, use the Moq framework which can also be installed with NuGet.
Each team will need to clone the template repo and ensure that the whole team can access it. However, you should not make your repo public because that would make them accessible to the other team.
Make sure that your repo is accessible to the module tutors.
There are four teams in total. For this exercise, they will be paired up with the pairing decided at random.
The repo contains a list of English words in the directory Resources/raw/.
The signature for each method to be implemented is provided. Teams must use the signature provided. If a team changes the signature independently (e.g. by renaming a parameter or by changing the number or datatype of parameters), they forfeit the point to the other team.
Method signature may be changed by agreement and consultation with the module tutor.
Trivial tests that simply fail without actually running any code are considered illegal. If any such tests are found, the point goes automatically to the coding team.
If a team believes that the testing team has forced a win by contravening any of the rules above, they may appeal the automatic result. The issue will then be decided by the module tutor. If the other team is deemed to have acted unfairly, the point will go to the team making the appeal.