Introduction

Overview

Teaching: 15 min
Exercises: 0 min

Questions

• Why do we want to implement automated tests for our software?

Objectives

• Explain why testing is important for software robustness and reproducibility.

• The benefits of automatically testing your code.

See introduction video here.

Key Points

• Testing ensures that our code is correct. It gives confidence for ourselves and potential users that the code is free of errors.

• Automated testing ensures that we (or other members of our team) do not introduce unexpected flaws in our code.