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# Testing Strategies

Like in traditional software testing, it is paramount to come up with a testing strategy that has both breadth and depth. Such a set of tests gives confidence that the AI-powered app is behaving as expected, or it alerts you that the opposite may be true.

To build out a comprehensive testing strategy it is important to come up with a series of assertions and statistics on which to create tests.  This section explains several goals when testing and how to create tests to assert desired behavior.