Understanding software testing
In this section, we'll discuss software testing and how to design integration and end-to-end tests to ensure your application works as expected.
There are numerous types of software testing, which we can divide into two categories: functional tests, which ensure that functional requirements and specifications are satisfied, and non-functional tests, which focus on testing the behavior and performance of the system. We'll talk about two types of functional tests in this section:
- Integration tests: We write this type of test to ensure that different software components integrate and work correctly to deliver the specified feature.
- End-to-end tests: We write this type of test to cover complete user flows, ensuring that features satisfy user expectations.
It's important to mention that coding the test is only one task of implementing software testing, and it's not worth it if you don't have solid feature specifications...
