[TIP] testing: why bother?

[John Arbash Meinel]

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On 3/23/2011 2:06 PM, Alfredo Deza wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I am about to give a presentation about testing in a couple of days and
> the audience is in its majority a 
> "we do not write tests" one :(
> 

You do ad-hoc testing all the time. Everyone does for any work they do
(you did at least check that it works when you were done, right? That's
a test).

If you can automate the ad-hoc tests that everyone is doing, you get to
do them 'for free' and save yourself the time of actually remembering
all the different tests that you want to do against a given piece of code.

John
=:->

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