Chapter 11. Design and testability
This chapter covers
- Benefiting from testability design goals
- Weighing pros and cons of designing for testability
- Tackling hard-to-test design
Changing the design of your code so that it’s more easily testable is a controversial issue for some developers. This chapter will cover the basic concepts and techniques for designing for testability. We’ll also look at the pros and cons of doing so and when it’s appropriate.
First, though, let’s consider why you would need to design for testability in the first place.
11.1. Why should I care about testability in my design?
The question is a legitimate one. When designing software, you learn to think about what the software should accomplish and what the results will ...
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