/game-of-life

Primary LanguageTypeScript

Testing John Conway's Game of Life

Available Scripts

In the project directory, you can run:

npm install or yarn install.

install the dependencies needed for the test application to run

npm run test

Launches the test runner in the console.

Nouns

  • Depending on the initial conditions
  • The Game.
  • Cell: Boolean
  • A few mathematical rules

class Game

  • initial conditions
  • public Arrays[x,y]: Boolean
  • implements a set of mathematicial rules
  • it has an initiation function(x: Int, y: Int, Array[x: Int,y: Int], steps)

Rules

For a space that is populated:

  • Each cell with one or no neighbors dies, as if by solitude.

  • Each cell with four or more neighbors dies, as if by overpopulation.

  • Each cell with two or three neighbors survives.

For a space that is empty or unpopulated

  • Each cell with three neighbors becomes populated.

Triple A tests

// Arrange, Act, Assert

  • Arrange: Prepare the System under test to a state you want
  • Act: Operation you want to verify. Operation should change the system state
  • Assert: Verify the new state is correct

Create 5 tests

  • That tests the game initialization
  • 2-5 Tests each of the rules of the game