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The Clojure Workshop

You're reading from   The Clojure Workshop Use functional programming to build data-centric applications with Clojure and ClojureScript

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838825485
Length 800 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Konrad Szydlo Konrad Szydlo
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Yehonathan Sharvit Yehonathan Sharvit
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Scott McCaughie Scott McCaughie
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Thomas Haratyk Thomas Haratyk
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Joseph Fahey Joseph Fahey
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Hello REPL! 2. Data Types and Immutability FREE CHAPTER 3. Functions in Depth 4. Mapping and Filtering 5. Many to One: Reducing 6. Recursion and Looping 7. Recursion II: Lazy Sequences 8. Namespaces, Libraries and Leiningen 9. Host Platform Interoperability with Java and JavaScript 10. Testing 11. Macros 12. Concurrency 13. Database Interaction and the Application Layer 14. HTTP with Ring 15. The Frontend: A ClojureScript UI Appendix

Why Testing Is Important

At the beginning of this chapter, we saw that software testing is important. Why? In order to answer that, we will need to understand what software testing is. It can be defined as a process that ensures that a particular piece of software is bug-free. A software bug is a problem that causes a program to crash or produce invalid output. In Chapter 9, Host Platform Interoperability with Java and JavaScript, we learned about errors in Clojure and ClojureScript. Testing is a step-by-step process that ensures that software passes expected standards of performance, set by customers or the industry. These steps can also help to identify errors, gaps, or missing requirements. Bugs, errors, and defects are synonyms. They all mean problems with our software.

The benefits of software testing are as follows:

  • Providing a high-quality product with low maintenance costs
  • Assuring the accuracy and consistency of the product
  • Discovering errors that are not...
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