Itamar Turner Trauring • 1/7/2026

Unit testing your code's performance, part 1: Big-O scaling

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This technical article introduces the concept of unit testing for code performance, focusing on verifying Big-O algorithmic scalability. It explains why testing scaling is critical, provides a refresher on Big-O notation, and demonstrates how to use the Python bigO library to empirically test and ensure your algorithms scale as expected.

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