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Agile Technical Practices Distilled

You're reading from   Agile Technical Practices Distilled A learning journey in technical practices and principles of software design

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2019
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ISBN-13 9781838980849
Length 442 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Marco Consolaro Marco Consolaro
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Alessandro Di Gioia Alessandro Di Gioia
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Pedro M. Santos Pedro M. Santos
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Table of Contents (31) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1
2. Chapter 1 FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2 4. Chapter 3 5. Chapter 4 6. Chapter 5 7. Section 2
8. Chapter 6 9. Chapter 7 10. Chapter 8 11. Chapter 9 12. Chapter 10 13. Section 3
14. Chapter 11 15. Chapter 12 16. Chapter 13 17. Chapter 14 18. Chapter 15 19. Section 4
20. Chapter 16 21. Chapter 17 22. Chapter 18 23. Chapter 19 24. Chapter 20 25. Chapter 21
26. Chapter 22 27. Chapter 23 28. License: CyberDojo
29. Sample Solutions
30. Feedback

Test Boundaries

The introduction of acceptance tests forces a discussion on test boundaries. What are the boundaries of an acceptance test? What about the boundaries of unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests? In the following diagram, we try to convey our views on different tests boundaries.

Figure 16.2: Test boundaries

The problem is that test terminology is not very standardized, and in our experience, we have seen some confusion about the different concepts of tests. Hopefully, the following definitions clarify the terminology:

  • End to end tests: Focused on business requirements. Exercise the complete flow, including external systems. Usually, these tests are slow to execute.
  • Acceptance tests: Focused on business requirements. Exercise all parts of the flow in our system. Compromise on feedback and speed of execution. Faster than end to end tests, but not as thorough.
  • Integration tests: Focused on technical implementation. Exercise...
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