In these short e-mails we have convinced me to try the testing
framework. I plan to write some tests tonight or tomorrow night.
On Sep 15, 2005, at 12:12 PM, Geert Bevin wrote:
There are lots of reasons.
In my experience tests are not worth the effort because my code
usually works as intended, and most bugs I find in my code would
not be found without exhaustive unit tests. I don't know if it's a
property of my code in particular, or luck, or what it is.
The purpose of this framework is to make automated testing just as
easy as manual testing.
Second, writing tests is not exciting. It feels good to see the
green bar but it's still boring work.
Maybe not the first time, but they give you a contract that you can
quickly test when you maintain your application. In time, manual
testing is a lot more boring since you end up doing all the things
over and over again, possibly forgetting some of the tests here and
there.
Third, most software I write is complex and object-oriented and
I'd have to write huge amounts of mocks just to get started with
testing. I don't have enough time to write code as it is, let
alone mocking it all out, creating dozens or hundreds of
interfaces, to find minor bugs.
You don't need to do any of this in the RIFE testing framework, all
your code for the back-end remains the same. No need to write any
mocks. You just test outside of the container to see if your
application works as is should from a browser point of view.
Fourth, I don't know how to test web stuff. I could probably find
somewhere about suggestions for how to test interactive websites,
but I haven't done it.
Just try the new framework, it should be pretty easy to understand
from the existing examples and I personally find it a tad addictive
since it's so easy to build up your end-user functionality contract
now.
I don't intend to 'convince' you, but imho you end up testing
manually anyway, so why not write it down in code that you can run
as much as you like in an automated fashion?
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