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Testing is an empirical,
technical investigation
conducted to provide
qquality-related
y information
about a software product
to a stakeholder
Primarily acceptance, or system-level tests Primarily unit tests and low-level integration
After 30 years
years, still rarely done
done. Widely (not universally,
universally but
increasingly) adopted
Ongoing Revolution—October 2007 Copyright © Cem Kaner 42
More on Test-Driven Development
• Provides a structure for working from examples, rather than from an
abstraction. (Supports a common learning / thinking style.)
• Provides concrete communication with future maintainers.
• Provides a unit-level regression-test suite (change detectors)
– support for refactoring
– support for maintenance
• Makes bug finding / fixing more efficient
– No
N roundtrip
dt i cost,t comparedd to
t GUI automation
t ti and d bbug
reporting.
– No (or brief) delay in feedback loop compared to external tester
loop
• Provides support for experimenting with the component library or
g g features
language