Testing software is more than just manually banging around (also called monkey testing) and trying to break different parts of the software application. Unit testing is testing a subset of the functionality of a piece of software. A unit test is different from a system test in that it provides information only about a particular subset of the software. In our previous Foundation series post on black box and white box testing, we used the inspections that come bundled with an oil change as examples of unit tests.
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Foundation Series: Index
topsyWidgetPreload({ “url”: “http%3A%2F%2Ftynerblain.com%2Fblog%2Ffoundation-series-index%2F”, “style”: “big”, “title”: “Foundation Series: Index” }); We’ve started a series of posts designed to provide context and background to readers on many of the topics we post about. This page serves to make it easy to navigate to these pages. It will be updated as new Foundation posts are added. You’ll [...]
Foundation Series: Software Process (Waterfall Process versus Incremental Process)
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Foundation Series: Introduction
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