This link has been bookmarked by 11 people . It was first bookmarked on 24 Apr 2008, by Ethan Jewett.
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Malthus Twain"This is the first installment in a series of short articles I plan to write on characterization testing. Characterization testing is an important concept and an essential tool for software developers stuck with, ahem, working with legacy code. Michael Feathers introduced the term and did a great job of explaining the hows and whys of characterization tests in his book “Working Effectively With Legacy Code”."
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Emmanuel HugonnetCharacterization tests are tests that characterize the actual behavior of a piece of code. In other words, they don’t check what the code is supposed to do, as specification tests do, but what the code actually and currently does.
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s_bergmannCharacterization testing is an important concept and an essential tool for software developers working with legacy code (i.e. most of us) and it deserves broader exposure and more attention.
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