Software Testing Anti-patterns · Codepipes Blog
There are several articles out there that talk about testing anti-patterns in the software development process. Most of them however deal with the low level details of the programming code, and almost always they focus on a specific technology or programming language.
In this article I wanted to take a step back and catalog some high-level testing anti-patterns that are technology agnostic. Hopefully you will recognize some of these patterns regardless of your favorite programming language.
Unfortunately, testing terminology has not reached a common consensus yet. If you ask 100 developers what is the difference between an integration test, a component test and an end-to-end test you might get 100 different answers. For the purposes of this article I will focus on the definition of the test pyramid as presented below.
If you have never encountered the testing pyramid before, I would urge you to become familiar with it first before going on. Some good starting points are:
