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Testability
Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.
—Burt Rutan
A substantial portion of the cost of developing well-engineered systems is taken up by testing. If a carefully thought-out software architecture can reduce this cost, the payoff is large.
Software testability refers to the ease with which software can be made to demonstrate its faults through (typically execution-based) testing. Specifically, testability refers to the probability, assuming that the software has at least one fault, that it will fail on its next test execution. Intuitively, a system is testable if it “reveals” its faults easily. If a fault is present in a system, then we want it to fail during testing as quickly as possible. Of course, calculating ...
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