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

Ian Cordasco graffatcolmingov at gmail.com
Sat Jul 26 08:18:39 PDT 2014


Thanks for the links Harry!

On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Harry Percival
<harry.percival at gmail.com> wrote:
> (re-sending a previous post to list as the mailman rejected it.  my own
> fault for having different reply-to: and from: addresses...)
>
> I discuss unit vs integrated vs functional tests at some length in my book -
> it's online and cc licensed‎, feel free to link.
>
> See box at end of chapter 19 for a bullet point summary:
>http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000000754/ch19.html#_onwards
>
> And the "terminology" box in the conclusion/wrapup chapter:
>http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000000754/ch22.html
>
> Hope they're useful!
>
> HP
>
>
>
>
> On 26 July 2014 04:49, C. Titus Brown <ctb at msu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>> --
>> C. Titus Brown, ctb at msu.edu
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