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I see you point but isnt't unit testing the basic starting point for startup programmers. And also could you elaborate more on what you mean by "testing in general". Thanks.

Lamin Sanneh
– Lamin Sanneh

2012-08-08 08:27:29 +00:00
Commented Aug 8, 2012 at 8:27
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There are at least two other types of testing - integration test, and acceptance tests. Unit tests cover a specific unit (e.g. this function of this class is supposed to Frab the Fizz). You mock/stub all the other places where that class interacts, passing it el fake-o data. When you do integration tests, you combine two (or more) classes to make sure that your classes go together the way you think they should. Eventually you build up enough tests that you're doing end-to-end testing of your entire system, sometimes known as "smoke tests".

Wayne Werner
– Wayne Werner

2012-08-08 19:33:47 +00:00
Commented Aug 8, 2012 at 19:33
There's also regression testing tout court. Regression tests are usually bigger than unit test, may take a day to build, may imply access to test data and special test environments. Actually the unit tests are a smaller, a sleeker, and a more maintainable version of (old-style) regression tests.

ZJR
– ZJR

2012-08-09 00:47:18 +00:00
Commented Aug 9, 2012 at 0:47

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