You are using unit-tests to ensure that production code works as defined or specified from the class-level view. This way you either get feedback that your implementation works as wanted (green-bar=success) or not (red-bar=fail). Unfortunately tests are also man-crafted work and can contain bugs. Following article shows what kind of test-errors exist and what [...]

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A key element for good quality software is a good automatic run test-suite, which contains both unit and integration tests. As Frederic P. Brooks already mentions in his book ‘The Mythical Man-Month’, developers (as other humans, too) are far away from being perfect. As software from the outside view often needs to be written 100% [...]

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To benefit from the principle of Continous Integration you need a good testing suite which includes both regression and new-feature tests. Regressions tests focus on testing features which are already implemented and shouldn’t be changed or influenced by latest commited changes. When software evolves such regression tests play a major role for the set of [...]

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