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Quality Control: Using Acceptance Testing to Guarantee Product Quality

Altexsoft

A bit earlier, in 1998, a much more trivial software mistake was uncovered. Let’s talk about what quality control entails in modern software development. In software development, quality control exists alongside two other concepts: quality assurance (QA) and testing. What is Quality Control?

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Testing Without Mocks: A Pattern Language

James Shore

For example code demonstrating these ideas, see my example on GitHub. When programmers use test-driven development (TDD), the code they test interacts with other parts of the system that aren't being tested. It avoids the downsides of mock-based testing, but it has tradeoffs of its own.

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Testing Without Mocks: A Pattern Language

James Shore

For example code demonstrating these ideas, see my example on GitHub. When programmers use test-driven development (TDD), the code they test interacts with other parts of the system that aren't being tested. It avoids the downsides of mock-based testing, but it has tradeoffs of its own.

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