TESTING TESTING

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Unit testing started to become fashionable more than ten years ago. Its core idea is simple: since testing is a repetitive manual activity, it could also be handled by computers. Frameworks permitted the creation of small routines called unit tests, which were run automatically on request. Results could then be compared against predefined good and bad constants – the concept caught on like wildfire. Unit tests are but one of the many automatic testing tools. As computational resources and research into artificial intelligence proceeded, static analysis became possible. It is based on a set of commonly encountered mistakes. Incoming product code is then compared against these known errors. Since then, even more advanced systems saw the light of day. User interface tests manipulate the GUI stack of the platform, thereby…

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