Testing

Note: Throughout what follows, I am heavily indebted to two books in particular: Unit Testing: Principles, Practices, and Patterns by Vladimir Khorikov (Manning Publications, 2020) and Effective Software Testing: A Developer’s Guide by Mauricio Aniche (Manning Publications, 2022). In fact, this overview of software testing should be viewed as a distillation of Khorikov and Aniche. ![Khorikov-UT-HI.png](https://res.craft.do/user/full/032236cd-2bcc-fa12-9dfe-e5564a597e07/doc/836657DD-FF3A-4CE5-8565-F6945FE45D6A/21ECE62D-593E-4825-A549-6312F555D284_2/ZCHd2JrecxcxPA1c35H2wTV0FrAzdktnxui31U1rO00z/Khorikov-UT-HI.png)Khorikov-UT-HI.png![Aniche-HI.png](https://res.craft.do/user/full/032236cd-2bcc-fa12-9dfe-e5564a597e07/doc/836657DD-FF3A-4CE5-8565-F6945FE45D6A/ED1FC92B-C9A0-4CDC-B13D-5AA3940FF3E7_2/FE2KZaydLyYRh1ydJKyDIvx4y3gaQLh82funASwXFqoz/Aniche-HI.png)Aniche-HI.png--- Software Testing, Our Field’s Least-Sexy Superpower Coming into software development from a background in the humanities, automated software testing struck me as a kind of superpower....