<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Ben Finney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ben%2Bpython@benfinney.id.au">ben+python@benfinney.id.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">"C. Titus Brown" <<a href="mailto:ctb@msu.edu">ctb@msu.edu</a>> writes:<br>
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> -> I still think there is a minimal level of testing, in any language, that<br>
> -> should come with a web app, and that it could be summarized in an elegant<br>
> -> way that wasn't too condescending. Where is our generations Nancy Reagan,<br>
> -> "just say no" to untested web apps?<br>
><br>
> "Test your shit, or I breaka your head".<br>
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</div>Not measurable. Things that get measured tend to get done more reliably.<br>
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I recommend "Your code isn't done until I have a complete automated<br>
test suite from you that I can run to see all requirements<br>
demonstrated working."<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hmm, this could be enforced if you were the guy responsible for deployment, as you could write a svn checkout hook, that ran the automated tests first, if they fail....no dice...your code doesn't get deployed.</div>
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That's the stick. The carrot comes by someone (you, or another)<br>
whispering sweetly in their ear about how much smoother the<br>
development process is if that automated test suite is written at the<br>
same time as (or even before!) the functionality that it's testing.<br>
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</font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">Ben Finney<br>
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