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Episode 167: The History of JUnit and the Future of Testing with Kent Beck

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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Applying Design Principles to Test Code

This chapter discusses the application of design principles to test code, specifically the 'dry' principle, and the potential trade-off between conciseness and readability. It also explores interesting phenomena in testing, such as the likelihood of tests to fail once they start passing, and the power law distribution of test execution times.

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