Software Engineering Made Easy: A Comprehensive Reference Guide for Writing Good Code

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M. GählerSoftware Engineering Made Easyhttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-1386-3_4

4. Testing

Marco Gähler¹  

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Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

 

Testing is a highly important yet frequently neglected topic. Thoroughly testing your code offers several advantages, and, surprisingly, identifying bugs is not the primary benefit.

The most important reason to write automated tests for your code is that they compel you to write high-quality code. Particularly with Test-Driven Development (TDD, p. 126) and writing unit tests (p. 98), you will produce significantly better code. The tests will motivate you to enhance the quality of your code because writing tests for bad ...