Tests are for cowards.
Or rather, tests make you a coward. The absence of tests is really scary when you're used to the safety net.
I'm adding something very simple to an existing system. Basically a skin on top of an existing game. The system is fairly well tested overall.
But the consultant who wrote the game I'm skinning , and who did a decent job overall, didn't write any unit tests of that particular game, and we didn't perform proper acceptance tests on his delivery. Grrr... Our bad.
So here I sit fixing bugs I found after ten minutes of eyeballing the output. And I don't have the courage to touch his code without having the tests there to prove I don't break anything.
I'm a test-infected chicken.
Re:Are you?
jplindstrom on 2005-01-12T20:38:55
What's that? Dutch chicken noise?Re:Are you?
Beatnik on 2005-01-12T22:33:26
Probably.. I'll ask the next dutch guy I meet:) You try to make a funny but not insulting sound with your keyboard... and only your fingers. Typing with your tongue is not allowed, as usual. Re:Are you?
cog on 2005-01-25T16:41:57
What do you mean, as usual?Re:Are you?
Beatnik on 2005-01-25T17:03:10
I mean, as he was trying to do before.Re:Are you?
cog on 2005-01-25T17:11:27
OMG, that was disgusting:-) Re:Are you?
jplindstrom on 2005-01-25T21:42:14
Pho.
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