this was the comment from Andrew C Oliver
Thanks & Regards
Praveen
Praveen Mathew
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"Andrew C. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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On 7/9/03 9:14 AM, "Praveen Mathew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ryan,
>
> Actually its a kind of pressure situation here. I need to
> do the Stream writing & modifying by this Friday. So I have decided to
do
> night outs to catch up with your working time. I am seeking your
Valuable
> help for this.
>
> I have a request. I do understand the importance of the test cases for
the
> code we write, but can we for a time being, focus a bit more on the
> actual writing of streams as whole to make the Doc file & try some
> modification of streams. Then we can complete all the test cases.
>
This is exactly the opposite of how you should work. You should write the
unit tests first and then the code. I realize you're in a hurry, but we
have learned from long experience in this project that unit tests are
neither optional, nor does saving them for later save time. You'll change
something...something that worked 5 minutes before will stop working and
you'll spend all night figuring it out....Compare this to WITH unit tests
where the unit test fails and you know immediately WHAT broke.
> This can actually make my life better here. I badly need to write a Doc
,
> modifying its Streams atleast in the the simplest way that can be done.
>
> Please give a serious thought on this
>
> Thanks & Regards
> Praveen
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