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Automated unit testing offers many new concepts for us to explore, so we will want to be certain we’ve taken the necessary precautions to insure a successful expedition into this new realm. Accordingly, let’s take a moment to prepare ourselves for the adventure we are about to undertake, to pause and give consideration to both the journey itself and the expectations we have about what we will encounter along the way.
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Software maintenance costs can be 75% of software total ownership costs. https://galorath.com/software-maintenance-costs/
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Osherove, Roy, The Art of Unit Testing, second edition, Manning, 2014, p. 9
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Meszaros, Gerard, xUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code, Addison Wesley, 2007, p. 40
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Ibid, p. 176
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A phrase often attributed to Albert Einstein
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McDonough, J.E. (2021). Preparing to Take the First Step. In: Automated Unit Testing with ABAP. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6951-0_2
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