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Create a test suite (if one is missing)

Create a test suite (if one is missing)

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Create a test suite (if one is missing)

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- [Instructor] The first thing that we need to investigate about our project's test suite is whether or not it even has one. If it does have one, great. We'll cover the improvements that we can make to it in further videos. But, if it doesn't have one, then it's important for us to create one. Creating a test suite may sound daunting, but it really doesn't have to be. You might be imaging creating a test suite with a high degree of test coverage, but that's not a reasonable goal when you're just getting started. Instead, we need to focus on creating an automated test suite that contains just one test. Why are we starting so small? Well, there are a lot of small, but important, details that we'll sort out along the way towards creating a test suite with just a single test in it. First, we need to decide which testing framework we're going to use. The language that you're working in might have a bunch of different…

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