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Acceptance Testing vs. Unit Testing: A Developer’s Perspective

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Extreme Programming and Agile Methods - XP/Agile Universe 2004 (XP/Agile Universe 2004)

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Acceptance testing is one of the most important XP practices and yet it is often neglected or perceived as “too hard”. But what if acceptance tests were like unit tests? This paper provides distilled practical advice in a context familiar to XP developers describing how you can start getting acceptance test-infected on your project.

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  1. ThoughtWorks Technologies (India) Pvt Ltd, Diamond District, Airport Road, Bangalore, India

    R. Owen Rogers

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, T2N 1N4, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Carmen Zannier

  2. Software Engineering Group, Institute for Information Technology, National Research Council of Canada, Montreal Road, Building M50, K1A 0R6, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Hakan Erdogmus

  3. Object Mentor, Inc., 501 North Riverside Drive, Suite 206, 60031, Gurnee, IL, USA

    Lowell Lindstrom

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Rogers, R.O. (2004). Acceptance Testing vs. Unit Testing: A Developer’s Perspective. In: Zannier, C., Erdogmus, H., Lindstrom, L. (eds) Extreme Programming and Agile Methods - XP/Agile Universe 2004. XP/Agile Universe 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3134. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27777-4_3

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