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Roy’s Analogy for Unit and Integration Testing

I like Roy’s analogy about the difference between unit and integration testing: Unit testing vs. Integration Testing : The Restaurant Analogy.

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A Sometimes Useful Practice: One Automated Test per Feature

  Not every product has smoke tests (a series of tests you can run after each build to make sure the product works well enough to continue development and testing). Smoke tests provide early feedback to developers about their work. … Continue reading

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Extended Random Regression Testing

  I’ve been at the STAR conference this week, and Cem Kaner‘s keynote talk yesterday discussed the idea of extended random regression testing — take all your programmatic tests, and run them in random sequences for a long time. You’ll … Continue reading

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