Code Challenge: Python Unit Testing

March 13, 2023

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By Mathis Hammel

Unit tests ideally test a small unit (or rather, amount) of code. For this code challenge, we have created 20 bad functions, write testcases to break them all! The reference function is count_islands which behaves as expected.

Challenge your assumptions and make sure you understand what count_islands actually does.

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