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Quantitative Finance · Glossary

What is Test pyramid?

Definition 27.2 Research, Data and Risk Platforms · Chapter 27 — Testing and Continuous Delivery

The test pyramid is the rule that a code base should have many unit tests, fewer integration tests and few end-to-end tests, because each level up is slower, more fragile and less precise about what broke; it became widely known through Mike Cohn’s 2009 book Succeeding with Agile.

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