On Mon, December 11, 2006 4:23 pm, Chuck Esterbrook wrote: > Do I call that a unit test? Or simply a regression test? Or something > else? >
Technically a unit test is performed by a developer on code modules as they are developed. Regression testing is done by V&V to insure that some change has not broken previously tested functionality. The other major categories are integration testing and system testing. Other ad hoc tests may be defined in a particular organization's processes (we have "smoke testing" and "spin testing"). Because regresion testing is expensive and time consuming, it is the bane of quality. God QEs try to analyze the changes and only test the affected domain of functionaity. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
