RE: [Asunit-users] a true beginner...

[Woodage, A. <ali...@de...>]

Thanks everyone for the references and starting points.
Johannes,
can you give me some idea of how you go about using automatic ways to cre=
ate your test shells?
=20
Alison

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From: asu...@li... on behalf of Johannes Nel
Sent: Tue 5/9/2006 6:26 PM
To: asu...@li...
Subject: Re: [Asunit-users] a true beginner...


unit testing was a pain for me in the begining, i hated writing proper te=
sts, always slacked and paid the price for it later. when i got into unit=
=20testing full-on i found my life became so much easier when bugs were f=
illed against me.=20
you get a bug, follow the steps to recreate it, notice a new edge case, w=
rite it up and voila you have broken tests.=20
also once you have several people working on a project with a proper cont=
inues integration system, you find yourself in a world where if any test =
breaks with checked in code, everybody gets notified. very few things sli=
p underneath the radar like that...=20
=20
i am a lazy sod however so i use automated ways of creating my test shell=
s and the like, i would advice you to do the same.

=20
On 5/9/06, Johannes Nel <joh...@gm...> wrote:=20

=09i left it there, consider it a gift from our kind employers... ;)
=09
=09
=09
=09On 5/9/06, Peter Hall <pet...@gm... > wrote:=20

=09	I just found that Kent Beck book in my apartment! Not sure exactly wh=
ere it came from. Anyway... it looks pretty good!
=09	=20
=09=09
=09	Peter
=09=09
=09=09
=09=09
=09=09
=09	On 5/9/06, Luke Bayes <lb...@gm...> wrote:=20

=09		This is a great question!
=09	=09
=09		The single best source that I've found is the book, "Test Driven Dev=
elopment by Example" from Kent Beck.
=09	=09
=09		This book really cleared up a lot of questions for Ali and I.=20
=09	=09
=09		I also got a lot of inspiration from the Gang of Four Design Pattern=
s book - this book helped me see the underlying (testable) object structu=
res that are behind gui systems...
=09	=09
=09	=09
=09		Anyone else?
=09		=20
=09	=09
=09	=09
=09		Luke Bayes=20
=09		www.asunit.org <http://www.asunit.org/>=20
=09	=09
=09	=09





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