Lately, it seems that many people have begun to champion the benefits/necessity of building tests.
For me there is no "lately" about it. I have
always championed the concept of testing suites for
software for anything more complicated than a one liner.
The methodology that I use for testing is a simple one.
I ask myself the following quesitons:
- What is the base functionality of this software?
- How do humans interact with it?
- How can I simulate that?
- How can I simulate the interactions going wrong?
Once I've answered those questions for myself I proceed
to develop a test plan and that most of the time will
drive how I write my test suite.
