C H A P T E R 14
Unit Testing
More than the act of testing, the act of designing tests is one of the best bug preventers known. The thinking that must be done to create a useful test can discover and eliminate bugs before they are coded — indeed, test-design thinking can discover and eliminate bugs at every stage in the creation of software, from conception to specification, to design, coding and the rest.
—Boris Beizer
You can see a lot by just looking.
—Yogi Berra
As was emphasized in the last chapter, nobody's perfect, including software developers. In Chapter 13 we talked about different things to look for when you know there are errors in your code. Now we're going to talk about how to find those errors. Of the three types of errors ...
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