Software Testing Strategies

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Programmer-Facing Testing

Programmer testing, also called developer testing, ensures that the software can at least do what the programmer expects it to do – one time. This has benefits outside of testing – for design, to create effective user interfaces, for maintainability, and benefits. To explain programmer-facing tests, this chapter covers the following topics:

• The programmer’s view
• Unit testing
• Test-driven development
• Unit tests and unit code design
• Mutation testing
• Testing Web APIs
• Testing functional and legacy code from the programmer’s perspective

This chapter ends with a practical exercise, or Kata, so that you know how to create unit tests in whatever language you are most capable of working with. The worked case examples were ...