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Isolating Functional Units: Why We Need Stubs

I’m planning a short set of articles on testing, summarising my thoughts from the slides presented at RefTest (here). This first one looks at the traditional split between unit tests, in which tests are genearlly isolated, and functional tests, which exercise an entire call stack.

Posted at Feb 14th | no comments | Filed Under: Software Development, TDD read on

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ben (2) I’ve worked with software and with computers for a while now. Long enough to sometimes be useful but not so long as to have lost interest.

My experiences of late have largely focused around distribted caching, in particular with Coherence, and this has inevitably shaped my understanding of systems, so keep that in mind as you read on.

The articles here really fall into two categories: Coherence stuff that I know, and wider issues of distributed computing, running projects and the like, which I find interesting. You can read a little more about me here.

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