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Unit Testing vs HIL Testing

The Agile Embedded Podcast

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Unit Tests vs System Tests

There's a false decontomy between unit tests versus system tests. You need them both to give you the confidence that your unit tests didn't miss anything. By definition, a unit test doesn't have any external dependencies. So clearly it wouldn't find any flaws in the communication between different modules for instance. And then those unit tests are always there and they're always checking for regressions.

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