[Tutor] Getting started in testing

[Ben Finney]

Terry Carroll <carroll at tjc.com> writes:

> Thanks to Alan, Danny, Albert-Jan and Ben for their suggestions. I've
> now gotten my feet wet in unittest and have gone from not quite
> knowing where to start to making substantial progress, with a small
> suite of tests up and running.

Great start!

Do keep in mind that unit tests are only one kind of test — the most
detailed, testing a single assertion about a single unit of code. A good
test suite has tests written to test higher groups of functionality too.

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Ben Finney