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Podcast: Test & Code
Episode: 39: Thorough software testing for critical features
Description: Complete and exhaustive testing is not possible. Nor would it be fun, or maintainable, or a good use of your time.
However, some functionality is important enough to make sure the test behavior coverage is thorough enough to have high confidence in it's quality.
In this episode, we discuss 3 techniques that can be combined to quickly generate test cases. We then talk about how to implement them efficiently in pytest.
The techniques covered are:
equivalence partitioning
boundary value analysis
decision tables
We discuss how to use these to generate test cases...