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Does the "Pyramid of tests" contradict the idea of tests focusing on behaviour?
I am talking about these two testing strategies : Have a pyramid of tests (with many more unit tests than high-level tests), because high level tests are harder to maintain and slower (see also : ...
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Is it a good idea to write all possible test cases after transforming the team to TDD to achieve a full coverage?
Assume we have a large enterprise-level application without any unit/functional tests. There was no test-driven development process during the development due to very tight deadlines (I know we should ...
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2answers
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Test Internals with TDD?
I'm new to TDD, and relatively new to software development in general (e.g. < 4 years experience), but I am trying to learn. I have been toying with TDD but ran into what I know realize is a ...
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Howto structure my app.js code to make it easier testable
I have a couple of Philip Hue lights in the hallway. These show the build status on their lights with a small Node.JS application. Its working like a charm. Currently I am in the process of testing ...
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Writing your test assertions in your function comments (just before the code)?
I'm using PHP and PHPUnit. Something bothers me: the fact that the assertions are in another class (too easy to forget or to ignore, for any new programmer in the project). If the test assertions ...
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Is it anti-pattern to mix unit test and web test? [duplicate]
It is a language agnostic question, e.g. I have a unit test like # Unit test User user = User.create('john'); assertEquals("User name is john", "john", user.getName()); # Web test start from here ...
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How to practice ATDD if design is not yet emerged from TDD?
Despite being very stakeholders friendly, ATDD aimed to provide a "stop" line when a feature has just been done. This avoids wasting time to add non-focused (and sometimes useless) code. That's why ...
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Functional testing and Acceptance testing leading to redundant code
What I know is: A Functional test aims to test a single component (like a WebApp's Controller) from the point of view of the developer. => Did I achieve all the requirements to make it work well? An ...
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Software Testing Techniques or Categories [closed]
What kinds of software testing do you know? I've heard about Test-Driven Development, Unit tests etc, but can't understand their importance and difference. For example, why are we using regression ...
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