August 2018
Beginner
594 pages
22h 33m
English
Content preview from Software Architect's Handbook
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Keeping unit tests up to date
Unit tests are a form of documentation for your system, describing its functionality and the expected behavior. Software architects should encourage their team to not only execute unit tests regularly but to keep them up to date. As requirements change or new functionality is added, unit tests need to be changed or added.
After changes are made, developers should modify any tests that need to be changed and then execute all of the unit tests to ensure there are no unintended consequences.
One thing that I have seen slip through the cracks before regarding keeping unit tests up to date are bug fixes. If a bug is found, the unit tests did not cover that particular scenario. One or more unit tests should be created ...