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Automated test
A small piece of code that runs part of an app and checks the result itself, every time it runs.
Automated tests turn 'looks right' into a check you can repeat. In test-first work, the test is written and seen to fail before the code exists. A test only proves the examples you give it, so those examples must look like real data, including empty values and odd cases. Tests that touch a database use a throwaway database, never a shared one.
Also called: Automated test, unit test, end-to-end test, e2e test, test, test-first, tests
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Appears in 20 lessons
- What building with AI means
- From idea to spec
- Reading code from AI
- Asking for small changes
- Data and migrations
- Debugging with AI
- The terminal without fear
- Editors and CLI agents
- Git and branches
- Context engineering: what the agent reads
- Plan, build, review
- Test first
- Worktrees and parallel work
- Reviewers that test real data
- The real build as the gate
- Project: one real feature with tests
- Final project: a complete app for real users
- Session 2: spec and written plan
- Session 3: build with tests and a separate reviewer
- Session 5: security and review pass