adamghill @adamghill@indieweb.social
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When writing asserts in tests, do you put the actual first or the expected?

The convention seems to be: actual first. But, annoyingly, I need to rearrange them to check if an expected is _in_ an actual which I tend to do a fair amount.

Maybe that's a testing code smell. Or maybe I'm just overthinking this. 😅

# actual first assert actual == expected # expected first assert expected == actualexpected = 2 actual = [1, 2, 3] # this reads well, but expected is first assert expected in actual # this seems messy? assert actual.index(expected) > -1
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