Different types of automated tests
There are many different types of automated tests, but we will consider and talk about only three categories of such tests as listed here:
Unit testing
Integration testing
End to end testing
Unit testing
Unit tests are usually designed to test the functionality of individual pieces of our code in isolation. This usually means testing our functions and methods, one at a time, to make sure they do exactly what is expected of them.
We usually write such tests in a manner that can verify the functionality of our methods and individual pieces of our code in various scenarios.
There are two main styles of writing unit tests; Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behavioral Driven Development (BDD).
Let's have a simplified overview of what they are and how they are different.
TDD unit tests
TDD unit testing is mostly used to test the implementation of our code. This is done by testing the actual result that a method produces against what is expected.
The TDD process can be thought...
