quartz/content/out/notes/testing.md

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Testing

Testing

most software will contain bugs bug severity if not always equivalent to bug priority testing is seeking out bugs some test types

• unit tests
• integration tests ⇒ check units work together
• end-to-end tests ⇒ check behaviour of whole program

1 Limitations

testing every code path is impossible

• halting problem - cant fully analyse code using code
• proved by alan turing in 1936

good test design focuses on key cases to pass and fail not probe interaction between units

• this should be done by integration testing

testing may afffect behaviour of code

• testing framework may affect the order of esecution
• testing framework may change execution speed