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13 13  ** **Early Feedback**: Tests provide immediate bug feedback. This is especially true for detecting accidentally introduced bugs caused by code changes. The earlier bugs are detected, the cheaper they are to fix. This also eliminates the fear of introducing bugs when writing or modifying code.
14 14  ** **Bug Location Detection**: Tests identify bug locations, saving debugging time.
15 15  * **Testable Design**
16 -** Writing tests automatically enforces specific design best practices, resulting in a [[Testable Design>>doc:.Testable Design.WebHome]]. A prerequisite for high quality code and architecture is good testability.
16 +** Writing tests automatically forces developers to apply specific design best practices, resulting in a [[testable design>>doc:.Testable Design.WebHome]] that improves code and architecture testability, an important quality criterion.
17 17  * **Documentation**
18 18  ** **Always Up To Date**: Tests serve as the most up-to-date form of code documentation, capturing the expected behavior of the production code in its current state or of a third-party library.
19 19  ** **Code Is Best Documentation**: Good tests are quick and easy to understand because they are written in an expressive language that developers speak fluently. In addition, the actual documentation is often simply skipped over.
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31 31  ** **Border cases** that could theoretically occur, such as maximum/minimum values, nulls, invalid input outside the permissible value range, zeroes, negative numbers, empty lists, values with special meaning, exceptions, etc.
32 32  ** **Performance requirements**
33 33  ** **Security requirements**
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35 +=== Related Topics ===
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37 +See also the articles on [[Test-Driven Development>>doc:Software Engineering.Agile.Extreme Programming.Test-Driven Development.WebHome]] and [[Acceptance Testing>>doc:Software Engineering.Agile.Extreme Programming.Acceptance Tests.WebHome]].