Test First , Test Last or Test At All?
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Take the Microsoft option and get your users to test it after release.
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Possibly, but I'm not too interested in the finer details. i just wanted a bit of an informal discussion about other people opinions.
:) I think as a genuine case, even the Lounge Police seems to have accepted this as an exemption, considering the amount of bona fide responses that the thread has recieved. ;)
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Hi everyone, I'm curious about other peoples views on unit testing. The company I work for is quite small and there are only four full time developers. We all have different views on programming styles ranging from very old school, constantly questioning the need for object orientation, through to very modern, arguing for progress and trying to keep everybody up to date. We adopted unit testing around two years ago and, although the overall development process takes a little longer, I think everyone agrees that it's more than proved its worth. In general we have written our unit tests after we have written our code but, for me, it has never really seemed like the correct or logical way to do it so recently I have been trying test-driven development and I have found it to be quite useful. I guess really I am keen to know what other people think about the whole approach to unit testing.
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Hi everyone, I'm curious about other peoples views on unit testing. The company I work for is quite small and there are only four full time developers. We all have different views on programming styles ranging from very old school, constantly questioning the need for object orientation, through to very modern, arguing for progress and trying to keep everybody up to date. We adopted unit testing around two years ago and, although the overall development process takes a little longer, I think everyone agrees that it's more than proved its worth. In general we have written our unit tests after we have written our code but, for me, it has never really seemed like the correct or logical way to do it so recently I have been trying test-driven development and I have found it to be quite useful. I guess really I am keen to know what other people think about the whole approach to unit testing.
Test, schmest. If it compiles, ship it! Or even better, use some interpreted programming language so it doesn't even need to compile.
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Test, schmest. If it compiles, ship it! Or even better, use some interpreted programming language so it doesn't even need to compile.
Is this the "Testing is for wimps. We make the big bucks in the support contracts" mindset?
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Hi everyone, I'm curious about other peoples views on unit testing. The company I work for is quite small and there are only four full time developers. We all have different views on programming styles ranging from very old school, constantly questioning the need for object orientation, through to very modern, arguing for progress and trying to keep everybody up to date. We adopted unit testing around two years ago and, although the overall development process takes a little longer, I think everyone agrees that it's more than proved its worth. In general we have written our unit tests after we have written our code but, for me, it has never really seemed like the correct or logical way to do it so recently I have been trying test-driven development and I have found it to be quite useful. I guess really I am keen to know what other people think about the whole approach to unit testing.
Ship the software and let the users discover the bugs for you. After all, God put users on this planet for a reason.:laugh:
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Ship the software and let the users discover the bugs for you. After all, God put users on this planet for a reason.:laugh:
Vivic wrote:
After all, God put users on this planet for a reason.
Two words. Legitimate Targets.
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Test immediately after writing (I should do test first but I find running a test to fail because I haven't written any code yet is a bit of a mind set change) However - how many contributions to Codeproject include the unit tests? maybe that should be a suggestion?
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By coincidence I was thinking about this the other day... :->
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Hi everyone, I'm curious about other peoples views on unit testing. The company I work for is quite small and there are only four full time developers. We all have different views on programming styles ranging from very old school, constantly questioning the need for object orientation, through to very modern, arguing for progress and trying to keep everybody up to date. We adopted unit testing around two years ago and, although the overall development process takes a little longer, I think everyone agrees that it's more than proved its worth. In general we have written our unit tests after we have written our code but, for me, it has never really seemed like the correct or logical way to do it so recently I have been trying test-driven development and I have found it to be quite useful. I guess really I am keen to know what other people think about the whole approach to unit testing.
chambers-chris wrote:
The company I work for is quite small and there are only four full time developers. We all have different views on programming styles ranging from very old school, constantly questioning the need for object orientation, through to very modern, arguing for progress and trying to keep everybody up to date.
are you sure you don't work in my department and on my team?
chambers-chris wrote:
We adopted unit testing around two years ago and, although the overall development process takes a little longer, I think everyone agrees that it's more than proved its worth.
I guess not. :laugh: Honestly, I love test driven development, and unit tests. if you can't be TDD at least have regression tests and validation tests. But alas, I can't get anyone to sign on to even those... :((
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Hi everyone, I'm curious about other peoples views on unit testing. The company I work for is quite small and there are only four full time developers. We all have different views on programming styles ranging from very old school, constantly questioning the need for object orientation, through to very modern, arguing for progress and trying to keep everybody up to date. We adopted unit testing around two years ago and, although the overall development process takes a little longer, I think everyone agrees that it's more than proved its worth. In general we have written our unit tests after we have written our code but, for me, it has never really seemed like the correct or logical way to do it so recently I have been trying test-driven development and I have found it to be quite useful. I guess really I am keen to know what other people think about the whole approach to unit testing.
It's been a long time since I've done any complex programming, but the old school way always worked well for my projects. Start with a spec. Write a test procedure to verify the spec. Define sub-specs for each module, and test procedures for each. Define interfaces between modules and enforce them with real change control. Design and code the modules, then test them individually. Correct as necessary until the spec is satisfied and the interfaces with other modules are verified. Integrate two or more modules and test again. Integrate the entire project and test some more. Give it to a user and watch him/her break it in a wholly unanticipated way.
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