Re:Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration
by hinkley on Friday October 27, 2017 @01:00PM
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That parallels my experiences. I got tired really early on with projects that ground to a halt because of brittleness and a lot of my focus is on building skill and confidence so that version 3 is no harder to ship than version 2 was. Every team I’ve left on good terms was more effective when I left than when I got there. The ones that fought me the whole way frustrate me and it shows.
Re:Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration
by chewbacha on Friday October 27, 2017 @04:39AM
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Man, I really want to read that study!
Re:Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration
by alien_at_work on Friday October 27, 2017 @01:51PM
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Was this the microsoft study? I think it was a breakdown of their delivery of Vista?
That is, as far as I know, the only tangible evidence that unittests are good unless you need to get something out the door quickly (which sadly is most of it).
I'd argue that is not the main benefit of unittesting however. That is the way code is structured, and especially how dependencies are explicit, e.g. injected with constructor arguments.