Reviewing Software Artifacts for Testability
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Testability is the degree to which a software artifact facilitates testing in a given test context. It is directly related to test effort reduction. A lack of testability, like other design faults, is expensive to repair when detected late during software development. Therefore, testability should be addressed already during reviews of early development artifacts. This paper describes different aspects of testability, heuristics that help to evaluate the testability of a software artifact, and how reviews based on checklists can be used to control the deployment of testability throughout the software lifecycle.
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