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1 * **Ultimate Goal**: Reduce costs and increase productivity.
2 * **Definition 'Production Code':** Code that provides functionality to meet project requirements.
3 * **Definition 'Test Code':** Often referred to as "tests", it is written to verify the correct functionality of the production code.
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7 === Benefits of Testing ===
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9 * **Quality Assurance**
10 ** **Automated Testing**: Minimizes the need for human source code checking or manual testing, providing a cost-effective way to ensure continuous quality assurance and the correct functioning of software at all times.
11 ** **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.
12 ** **Bug Location Detection**: Tests identify bug locations, saving debugging time.
13 * **Testable Design**
14 ** Writing tests automatically enforces design best practices, resulting in a 'testable design' and higher quality code. Good code and architecture are testable, and vice versa.
15 * **Documentation**
16 ** Tests serve as the most current form of code documentation, capturing the expected behavior of the production code in its present state.
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20 === What should be tested? ===
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22 Every functionality you expect the software to provide at any moment. You should test:
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24 * **User Cases**
25 ** Defined in project requirements
26 ** Use cases derived from the high-level project use cases. For example, expected behavior of functions, classes, modules and components that the user does not see.
27 * **Border cases** that could theoretically always occur, such as maximum/minimum values, nulls, invalid input, nulls, negative numbers, empty lists, values with special meaning, exceptions, etc.