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It should be "when people started considering parts of the system under test as the “units”"
by WolfOliver 3y ago
It should be "when people started considering parts of the system under test as the “units”"
- JonChesterfield 3y agoUnits are parts of the system. Perhaps you want to say something about granularity?
- tsimionescu 3y agoThe claim in that phrase of the article is that a "unit test" was originally supposed to mean "a test that runs unitarily, by itself". Conversely, the more common interpretation of the term is "a test for a single unit of code". So, according to that phrase, units are not part of the system. The units are supposed to be the tests. Note that I don't agree with this semantics game. But that is the intended meaning of that phrase.