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Software Architect's Handbook
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Software Architect's Handbook

by Joseph Ingeno
August 2018
Beginner
594 pages
22h 33m
English
Packt Publishing
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Testability

Testability is the degree to which a software system supports testing in its given context. The higher the level of testability, the easier the software system and its components are to test. If a component is not easy to test, it may indicate that the design is not ideal, leading to an implementation that is unnecessarily complex. A significant part of the development costs for software systems is related to testing, so if the software architecture can play a role in testability there can be noticeable cost benefits.

A software system that has a higher level of testability makes it easier to test, which results in an increase in both the efficiency as well as the effectiveness of testing. Testing efficiency increases because ...

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