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Part II of the TDDA Book is about reference testing. In conventional software testing a regression test is a test designed to detect a software regression—a defect that was previously not present, or had been fixed, in an earlier version of the software. In test-driven data analysis (TDDA), a reference test is a semantic regression test, i.e. one that checks that current outputs are meaningfully t
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Testing Pyramid or Testing Trophy?
Read about these in Chapter 10 of Test-Driven Data Analysis, now free to read online at https://book.tdda.info/10.
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Chapter 5 of my book, Test-Driven Data Analysis, is now freely available online at:
https://book.tdda.info/book/chapter5.html.
The chapter is called Constraint Discovery and Validation, and is concerned with automatic generation of constraints from believed-to-be-good data and the use of of those constraints for validation of new data.
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Testing Pyramid or Testing Trophy?
Read about these in Chapter 10 of Test-Driven Data Analysis, now free to read online at https://book.tdda.info/10.
#tdda #books
Part II of the TDDA Book is about reference testing. In conventional software testing a regression test is a test designed to detect a software regression—a defect that was previously not present, or had been fixed, in an earlier version o…
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Chapter 7, of the TDDA Book—Practical Constraints—is now available online:
https://book.tdda.info/book/7
This completes the material on data validation, covering things like non-tabular data, spreadsheets, regularising measurements and the…
Chapter 6 of the TDDA Book, Custom Constraints, is now open at
https://book.tdda.info/book/6
This ones focuses on tricks and tips for going beyond the simplest constraints, including
- Individual value constraints
- Record-level (per-row…
I should have done this a couple of days ago.
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Chapter 5 of my book, Test-Driven Data Analysis, is now freely available online at:
https://book.tdda.info/book/chapter5.html.
The chapter is called Constraint Discovery and Validation, and is concerned with automatic generation of constra…
My tutorial on Test-Driven Data Analysis (TDDA) from #PyDataLondon2026 is up:
https://youtu.be/EH0WpGFAV_g
There are a few details at
https://www.tdda.info/pydata-london-2026-tdda-tutorial
and the slides are at
https://stochasticsolutions.…
Is it bad that Elon Musk has a trillion dollars? Yes, and here’s why
— Ingrid Robeyns (@ingridrobeyns) The Guardian
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