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Understanding Software
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Understanding Software

by Max Kanat-Alexander
September 2017
Beginner
278 pages
4h 24m
English
Packt Publishing
Audiobook available
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Test Boundaries

Every test has certain boundaries as an inherent part of its definition. In much the same way that you couldn't design a single experiment to prove all the theories and laws of physics, it would be prohibitively difficult to design a single test that actually validated all the behaviors of any complex software system at once.

So when designing a test, you should know what it is actually testing, and what it is not testing.

If it seems that you have made such a test, most likely you've combined many tests into one and those tests should be split apart.

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ISBN: 9781788628815