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Unit Testing and Refactoring
The ideas explored in this chapter are fundamental pillars in the global context of the book because of their importance to our ultimate goal: to write better and more maintainable software.
Unit tests (and any form of automatic tests, for that matter) are critical to software maintainability, and therefore something that cannot be missing from any quality project. It is for that reason that this chapter is dedicated exclusively to aspects of automated testing as a key strategy, to safely modify the code, and iterate over it, in incrementally better versions.
After this chapter, we will have gained more insight into the following:
- Why automated tests are critical for a project's success
- How unit tests work as ...
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