What is Self-Testing Codeand?
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Book Excerpt from "Generative AI in C++" (full text online)
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by David Spuler, Ph.D.
What is Self-Testing Code?
Instead of doing work yourself, get a machine to do it. Who would have ever thought of that?
Getting your code to test itself means you can go get a cup of coffee and still be billing hours. The basic techniques include:
- Unit tests
- Regression tests
- Assertions
- Self-testing code blocks
- Debug wrapper functions
The simplest of these is unit tests, which aim to build quality brick-by-brick from the bottom of the code hierarchy.