[TIP] A quick guide to testing (for the khmer project)

C. Titus Brown ctb at msu.edu
Sat Jul 26 04:49:24 PDT 2014


On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 02:11:18PM -0500, Terry Peppers wrote:
> >   Do you have suggestions for a good, concise discussion of
> > the difference between unit tests and functional tests?
> 
> The answers by John and Harry are quite good. I feel like we could have an
> endless TiP BoF debate on terminology (noted for Montreal next year,
> people). That said, I still think Mr. Huggins hand drawn pyramid from a bar
> napkin ... perhaps after discussion with you and Grig -- at least that was
> how I remember the lore ... still rings true.

That napkin would be worth something now that Jason is so famous!

--titus
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