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Acceptance testing is one of the most important XP practices and yet it is often neglected or perceived as “too hard”. But what if acceptance tests were like unit tests? This paper provides distilled practical advice in a context familiar to XP developers describing how you can start getting acceptance test-infected on your project.
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Rogers, R.O. (2004). Acceptance Testing vs. Unit Testing: A Developer’s Perspective. In: Zannier, C., Erdogmus, H., Lindstrom, L. (eds) Extreme Programming and Agile Methods - XP/Agile Universe 2004. XP/Agile Universe 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3134. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27777-4_3
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