...

/

Independent: The Third Quality of Valuable Tests

Independent: The Third Quality of Valuable Tests

Learn about the independent valuable test quality and the issues if the quality of a test is not met.

Independent

A test is independent if it doesn’t depend on any other tests or external data to run. An independent test suite gives the same results no matter how the tests are run and limits the scope of test failures to only tests that cover a buggy method.

Tests order

In contrast, a very dependent test suite could trigger failures throughout our tests from a ...