On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Gene Wirchenko<[email protected]> wrote: > > I am trying to put together a simple test suite for the app > that I maintain. My boss does not really see the need for it, and he > is the one who has to establish the standard. I think, I hope that > he is going to do it, to humour me if nothing else. >
I have bought into the religion of Test-Driven Development and Behavior-Driven Development. TDD and BDD dictate that you use tests all the time to (1) establish what you want to code to do, (2) confirm that the code is doing what you want, and (3) confirm the change you make doesn't change the behavior of the code you're working on, or the code in some other part of the system. There are a lot of write-ups of these techniques and the resultant increase in productivity and quality. I'll bet you can find some articles that will get your boss thinking it's a direction worth exploring. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
