What are unit testing and integration testing, and what other types of testing should I know about?

Off the top of my head:

  • Unit testing in the sense of “testing the smallest isolatable unit of an application”; this is typically a method or a class, depending on scale.
  • Integration testing do these things talk to each other properly?
  • Feature testing: this may cut across units, and is the focus of TDD.
  • Black-box testing: testing only the public interface with no knowledge of how the thing works.
  • Glass-box testing: testing all parts of a thing with full knowledge of how it works.
  • Regression testing: test-cases constructed to reproduce bugs, to ensure that they do not reappear later.
  • Pointless testing: testing the same basic case more than one way, or testing things so trivial that they really do not need to be tested (like auto-generated getters and setters)

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