June 2023
Beginner
403 pages
11h 38m
English
Testing is a healthy software engineering practice and a sizable enough topic to merit its own chapter in this book.
How do you ensure a piece of software works as expected? You test it. Broadly speaking, there are three ways:
- Manually verify all scenarios and edge cases. For example, manually testing use cases as part of declaring a feature complete
- Automatically verify all scenarios and edge cases. For example, run these tests as part of the continuous integration/continuous deployment pipeline
- Monitor how the software behaves in production and detect malfunctions. When a gap is found, teams build automated tests and add them to the CI/CD system
Testing is a core part of any tech company’s engineering ...
