【Ken】Well behaved software by testing process -1

Terminology

• Testing - Testing is the activity of finding out whether a piece of code ( a metaod, class or program) produces the intended behavior.
• Debugging - Debugging is the attempt to pinpoint and fix the source of an error.
• positive testing - Testing of cases that are expected to succeed.
• negative testing - Testing of cases that are expected to fail.
• assertion - the expression that states a condition that we expected to be true. If the condition is false, This indicates an error in the program.
• fixture - a set of objects in a defined state that serves as a basis for unit tests.
• walkthrough - working trough a segment of codeline by line, while observing changes of state and other behavior of the application.