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The Software Engineer's Guidebook
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The Software Engineer's Guidebook

by Gergely Orosz
June 2023
Beginner
403 pages
11h 38m
English
Pragmatic Engineer BV
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CHAPTER 14

TESTING

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 ...

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