Article: Testing Is … A Developer’s Perspective
I’ve been planning for some time to package up a couple of my earlier series’ of blog posts into a more digestible form. Finally, I’ve taken the time to combine, edit and publish the Testing Is … series as a single article:
Arguments in favour of automated software testing are too often presented in a patronising fashion. Developers that don’t write their own tests are labelled as “unprofessional” and the code they write as “worthless”. These arguments conflate two very different groups of developers: those who don’t care enough to test, and those that care deeply but are unconvinced of the benefits of testing. The former group aren’t worth convincing, and the latter can’t be expected to be swayed by an argument that insults them in this fashion.
Read the full article on zutubi.com.
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