Chapter 10. Advanced testing techniques
10.1 | A contact manager with persistence | 211 |
10.2 | Sending an email to a contact | 219 |
10.3 | A fake mail server | 225 |
10.4 | Summary | 230 |
Once, as I was zapping TV channels, I happened upon an unfamiliar soap opera. A man was saying to a woman, “We’re real people; we have real feelings.” If I had been following the program from the start, I would probably have been mildly amused by this. But coming in suddenly, it struck me how extraordinary a statement this was, a fictional character bombastically proclaiming himself real.
Working with software, we’re used to juggling the real and the unreal. In computing, it’s a matter of taste whether you consider anything real or not, other than hardware and moving electrons. ...
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