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Exercise 002: Remove Unused Given Parameter

🔗 Related Smell: 002 - Unused Given Parameter

Purpose

  • Learn to identify the Unused Given Parameter smell.
  • Understand how to clean it up and how to find all occurances spread over different locations.

Your Task

Within the step implementation file there is field, which is intialized by a Givenstep in the Customer.featurebut never used. Find at least one such field and remove the code and the step.

Solution

Hint A
  • You are looking for a field in the step implementation, which is set but not read.
Hint B
  • The relevant field is birthday.
  • Search for all occurances.
Hint C
  • The relevant field is birthday.
  • The field birthday is only initialized in the step And the customer's birthday is 2000/03/19.
  • Search for other occurances of a date in the code.
Step by Step Walkthrough
  • The relevant field is birthday.
  • The field birthday is only initialized in the step And the customer's birthday is 2000/03/19.
  • A default birthday is passed to the business function 'Add Customer' in multiple steps.
  • Decide to use the default birthday, since there is no assertion on the correct birthday.
  • Remove the in the step from the step implementation file .
  • Remove the step And the customer's birthday is 2000/03/19 in the Customer.feature file.

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