Poll: Do you test your code?

Re:Poll: Do you test your code? by haar on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @09:42PM (#3706346)

Even if you test manually what you just changed, in a relatively complex codebase how can you guarantee that your changes haven't broken behaviour in a separate yet related aspect of the system?

This is what I find the major advantage of a comprehensive test-suite to be, I don't have to worry as much about breaking any part of the system as a whole - if my suite passes, then I know everything I've worked on so far works, not just the bit I think I changed.

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Re:Poll: Do you test your code? by anarchotroll on Friday March 16, 2012 @07:04AM (#3712777)

You can never actually guarantee anything even if you have tests. The tests will only increase the likelihood of catching regressions.

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Re:Poll: Do you test your code? by vishgm on Thursday March 15, 2012 @05:27AM (#3707556)

so true!!

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