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/Key Principle: Use Automated Tests Created by the Dev Team
Key Principle: Use Automated Tests Created by the Dev Team
Make sure to use automated tests created by cross-functional development team.
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ABOUT THIS CHAPTER Agile development shifted the traditional test emphasis in four ways. First, it increased the emphasis on testing by developers. Second, it emphasized front-loading testing—testing functionality immediately after it is created. Third, it increased emphasis on test automation. Finally, it emphasized testing as a means of refining requirements and design.
These four emphases provide an important safety net for Agile’s other practices, such as just-in-time design and implementation. Without the safety net of a comprehensive automated test suite, the constantly changing design and code environment would give rise to a tidal wave of defects—many of them undetected and going into the latent defect pool described in the “ ...