From: Julian Leviston <julian@...>
Date: 2009-04-02T16:59:45+09:00
Subject: Re: official poll - unit testing

Personally, bdd rocks.

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On 02/04/2009, at 2:41 PM, David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> wrote:

> 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.
>