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I (heart) my tests

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

(This isn’t for you. This is a love letter to my unit tests, who deserve it, who deserve a 5 am stream of consciousness homage.)
Slow builds really bug me. And having lots of unit tests is no excuse for a slow build. If you think they are, there’s something you’re not doing right.
This past week or so [...]

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Making software like intensive care or bombing missions

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Today Ben Simo twittered a link to Cem Kaner’s keynote slides from CAST 2008 on The Value of Checklists and the Danger of Scripts. This was timely for me because I’d been trying to describe to a friend about why I thought manually executed scripts are worse than useless.
Even better, at least for general inspiration, Kaner’s slides included [...]

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WatirCraft announced

Monday, June 23, 2008

Bret Pettichord announced his next big thing yesterday: WatirCraft, a company around the popular testing library Watir. In his announcement Bret explained that WatirCraft is making a few bets:

“We are betting that we can build a business around making testers successful with automated testing.”
“Pete and I are making a bet …[on] the vision … automation is [...]

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