[Radioactive-quality] Re: unit testing

[Ismail N. <ena...@ya...>]

Shaun,

I have used Junit for the last 3 years.. we can talk about it whenever
you like.

If we start to use java which seems very likely at this point, most
developers comming in from that background hopefully have some unit
testing effort. 

Unit tests are extremely effective if done regularly by the developer.
They just increase your overall quality and productivity substantially.
There are tons of books and articles writen on this stuff by experts
like Martin Fowler, Kent beck etc.. There is a learning curve.. but it
pays off. 

Also I agree that more sets of eyes the better. For that we need to
setup a process for inspecting code. Maybe whenever a new development
artifact or any piece of is submitted we should have an informal code
inspection process. Thats how a lot of the big projects do it. You
submit the code they inspect the code and then include the code with a
build.

--- Shaun Ricci <sha...@ra...> wrote:

> Hey everyone,
> 
> I am not sure if we are too early into the development cycle to start
> thinking 
> about unit testing, but I want to always be keeping things like this
> in the 
> back of my head so when it comes time to unit test we are not
> wondering what 
> direction to go in.  Here is a real quick summary of some things I
> think 
> about on unit testing.
> -should be done by the developers.  Generally in the past, as a rule
> of thumb 
> I have not unit tested my own code.  The more sets of eyes on a piece
> of 
> code, the more stable it will be.  
> -someone from the quality ensures that unit testing is done on every
> line of 
> code.
> -it seems we are leaning towards java, and if that is the case, does
> anyone 
> have experience with JUnit?  I don't, but have been trying to play
> with it a 
> bit.
> 
> I have lots of other thoughs on unit testing, so perhaps we can talk
> about 
> this more over IRC in the next couple of weeks.  Any suggestions are
> more 
> than welcome.  There are alos other quality subjects I want to talk
> about 
> (regression testing etc.), and will send out other emails so we can
> get 
> threads on each sub -topic we discuss over time.
> 
> Thanks,
> Shaun
> 


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Ismail Nalwala                       email:ena...@ya...