The Anatomy of a Test

Get familiarized with the basic test terminologies that we'ill use in this course.

We'll cover the following...

As we begin our journey into the land of unit tests, let’s establish some basic vocabulary and test theory. Software tests, no matter how complicated they are, are comprised of no more than four stages.

  • Setup
  • Exercise
  • Verify
  • Teardown

Simple tests may only have two of these stages. Complex ones might have cycles that ...