From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2009-04-02T12:41:27+09:00
Subject: Re: official poll - unit testing

On Wednesday 01 April 2009 20:40:37 john maclean wrote:
> Hello,
> My name is Mr Official and I am hereby asking you to participating in
> my poll. "Do you really do unit testing?"
[...]
> * I only unit test when

I only unit test when I have enough of a concept of what I'm trying to build 
that a test makes sense.

Places where I don't test:

 - Vague prototypes. Tests are a way to describe how something should behave. 
If I don't yet know how it's supposed to behave, I can't really write a test. 
Sometimes, you just have to experiment.

 - Tiny one-off scripts. Often, writing a test for these would require 
duplicating most of what the script already does, and it's not likely to 
contain any subtle bugs that you wouldn't find by just running it.

 - UIs. Mostly because I haven't gotten around to learning Selenium or 
anything similar. Also because this is the hardest place to automate testing, 
and the easiest place to manually test.