From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-05-28T14:50:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Project Directory Structure

On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 08:12:45AM +0900, Lyle Johnson wrote:
> Jim Freeze wrote:
> 
> >  Sorry to be stupid, but how do acceptance tests differ from unit
> >  tests?
> 
> The short answer is that:
> 
>  * acceptance tests are generally specified or written by
>    the customer to ensure that the program does what it's
>    supposed to do, i.e. it meets it acceptance criteria.
>  * unit tests are generally written by the code developer(s)
>    to ensure that individual classes or components of the
>    software are doing the right thing.

This means in practice that acceptance tests "imply" integration tests,
as they consider the whole system at once, for the customer judges the
behavior of the program, not of a single unit. Right?

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