Lexicon

Example-Only Testing

Kind: anti-pattern

Layer: Computation Core

Record: lexicon:example-only-testing

Canonical: Lexicon

Testing only a few hand-picked examples instead of properties that must hold across all inputs.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Environment-Sensitive Behavior and before Floating Dependencies.

Category

  • Correctness / Determinism / Verification

Negated by

  • Property-Based Testing

Violates

  • Property-Based Testing

Linked from

  • Correctness / Determinism / Verification