Continue Developing the Discount Function

Welcome to your second lesson, which continues to delve into Test Driven Development (TDD) practices using Scala 3, ScalaTest, and Mockito. In this unit, we will extend the functionality of our calculateDiscount function by implementing five new requirements.

Building on the previous unit, this course emphasizes practical experience by sequentially providing requirements through tests. Your mission is to implement code that satisfies each test, mirroring a real-world TDD scenario. Consider this guide your pair programmer, offering test-driven prompts to enhance your expertise incrementally.

As a reminder, the Red-Green-Refactor cycle is crucial in TDD, steering your development process:

• Red: Begin by writing a failing test to define what to do next.
• Green: Develop just enough code to pass the test, concentrating on meeting the functionality.
• Refactor: Enhance the code for clarity and efficiency without changing its behavior.

Below, you'll find additional requirements and tests designed to handle edge cases, such as negative discount percentages and capping maximum discounts.

These enhancements aim to ensure the calculateDiscount function remains robust and reliable under various conditions.

• Description: The function should not accept negative discount percentages and must throw an error in such cases.
• Test Case:
  Scala

  it("should throw Exception for discounts less than zero percent"):
    // Arrange
    val calculator = DiscountCalculator
    val originalPrice = 100.0
    val discountPercentage = -10.0
  
    // Act & Assert
    the[IllegalArgumentException] thrownBy {
      calculator.calculateDiscount(originalPrice, discountPercentage)
    } should have message "Discount cannot be negative"

  This test ensures that the function throws an exception when a negative discount percentage is provided.