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What Is Test Impact Analysis

Test impact analysis is a technique that identifies the potential impact of code changes on existing tests, enabling efficient software testing by running only the tests affected by recent modifications and reducing unnecessary test execution.

Related terms: code coverage, regression testing, unit testing

Test Impact Analysis: Examples in Context

After each commit, the team uses test impact analysis to identify and run only the test cases related to recent code changes, streamlining their testing workflow.

Test impact analysis revealed that recent code modifications caused several automated tests in the payment processing module to fail, giving the development team immediate insight into where to focus their fixes.

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