Chapter 1. The basics of unit testing
This chapter covers
- Defining unit testing and integration testing
- Exploring a simple unit-testing example
- Exploring text-driven development
There’s always a first step: the first time you wrote a program, the first time you failed a project, and the first time you succeeded in what you were trying to accomplish. You never forget your first time, and I hope you won’t forget your first tests. You may have already written some tests, and you may even remember them as being bad, awkward, slow, or unmaintainable. (Most people do.) On the other hand, you may have had a great first experience with unit tests, and you’re reading this to see what more you might be missing.
This chapter will first analyze the “classic” ...
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