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in reply to Re: Does anybody write tests first?
in thread Does anybody write tests first?
A few points here:
- Yes, what gets reported in a failing test could be seriously improved. I have fully drunk the TDD kool-aid and I hate the results when I have a failing test in a .t file with 523 test cases. Often, I have to throw a bunch of __END__'s and if(0)'s around to find the failing testcase.
- The major benefit of test suites, IME, is the repeatability. I can make a change, then run 5000 tests to make sure nothing else got bolloxed up. That's nice.
- You're a maintenance dev. I didn't write a lot of .t tests as a maintenance dev. Frankly, it wasn't cost-effective.
My criteria for good software:
- Does it work?
- Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?
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