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Integration Tests: Boundaries to Test, Fakes to Use

This generated surface maps a learner-facing curriculum unit to its canonical source routes.

Curriculum surface​

  • Open learner-facing unit
  • Curriculum path: content/curriculum/production/semester-10-capstone/module-02-implementation-testing/concepts/cluster-02-test-pyramid-for-a-real-system/05-integration-tests-boundaries-to-test-fakes-to-use-primary.md
  • App: production
  • Semester: semester-10-capstone
  • Module: module-02-implementation-testing
  • Unit kind: concept
  • Curation level: module_curated

Learning objectives​

  • Explain Integration Tests: Boundaries to Test, Fakes to Use as the disciplined conversion of design intent into working software with evidence, not just feature completion.
  • Use Integration Tests: Boundaries to Test, Fakes to Use to reason about feedback loops, test confidence, quality boundaries, and the cost of weak implementation discipline in a capstone project.
  • Use clean-code, good-code-bad-code, refactoring, software-engineering-at-google to connect the learner page to code structure, verification strategy, and the practical mechanics of shipping a reliable implementation.

Prerequisites​

  • Comfort with the capstone domain, architecture direction, and the need to prove behavior through repeatable tests and evidence.

Source books​

  • clean-code
  • good-code-bad-code
  • refactoring
  • software-engineering-at-google

Source routes​

Clean Code​

Good Code Bad Code​

Refactoring​

Software Engineering At Google​

Supporting curriculum routes​

External enrichment​

  • Martin Fowler: Test Pyramid (read_if_stuck) - Useful when the learner needs a compact model for balancing fast feedback and higher-level confidence during capstone delivery.
  • Google Testing Blog (optional_deep_dive) - Provides production-oriented testing guidance that helps capstone work move beyond narrow unit-test thinking.

AI companion modes​

  • Explain simply
  • Socratic tutor
  • Challenge my understanding
  • Diagnose my confusion
  • Connect forward / backward

Source-of-truth note​

This teaching unit is learner-facing guidance assembled from canonical book routes plus prior curriculum surfaces. Use the listed source books as the primary conceptual spine for Integration Tests: Boundaries to Test, Fakes to Use, and use the supporting curriculum routes to reconnect earlier learner-facing explanations when needed.