Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
Chapter 6
Automate
Unit
Tests
Automate
Component
Tests
Automate
System
Tests
Automate
Functional
Tests
Categorize
Developer
Tests
Run Faster
Tests First
Write Tests
for Defects
Make Component
Tests Repeatable
Limit Test Cases
to One Asset
Practice makes perfect.
—E
NGLISH PROVERB
re·li·a·ble
—adjective—Giving the same result in successive trials.
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A tenet of systems engineering says that the reliability of a linear
system is the
product
of the reliability of each of the system's compo-
nents. For example, imagine a system with three components like that
shown in Figure 6-1.
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