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Home < NA-MIC-kit-curriculum < Testing-Based ProgrammingIntroduction
Testing-Based Programming is an software development methodology that relies on continuous and exhaustive testing as a scaffolding for facilitating rapid development.
The principle is very simple:
- If you have an extensive test-suite that exercises all the capabilities of your software, you can make both swift and large scale changes to the code, and rely on the testing-suite to reveal immediately if any bug has been introduced by the changes.
- In the absence of a testing-suite, every change in the code has the potential of introducing new defects that will go unnoticed for a long time.
