Chapter 8Climbing the Pyramid
At this point you’ve seen each kind of test. You know how they work. You’ve seen them in action. You are now ready to bring it all together.
The goal of this chapter is to just give you a feel for how the pyramid works. We are going to take a small feature, walk each level of the pyramid, and discuss which tests we would typically write where, along with how each kind of test supports and complements the others.
By the end of this chapter you will have a solid understanding of where each kind of test should go, where the lines sometimes blur in our tests, and how to deal with the gotchas that you and your team may ...
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