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Software Configuration Management Patterns: Effective Teamwork, Practical Integration
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Software Configuration Management Patterns: Effective Teamwork, Practical Integration

by Stephen P. Berczuk, Brad Appleton
November 2002
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
4h 32m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 15. Regression Test

Regression Test

Photo by Alfred T. Palmer. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, Reproduction Number: LC-USE6-D-007389.

An experimental scale model of the B-25 plane is prepared for wind tunnel tests in the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Inc. October 1942.

A Smoke Test (13) is quick but not exhaustive. For it to be effective, you need to do the hard work of exhaustive testing as well. If you want to establish release candidates, you need to be sure that the code base is robust. This pattern explains how to generate builds that are no worse than the last build.

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How do you ensure ...

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