“Sure, test automation is a good thing. But we can’t, and shouldn’t, automate them all. Why then, ask people to ‘automate all tests’?”
Monthly Archives: May 2006
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May 06
Automating “All” Tests
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May 06
The YAGNI Development Assistant
Very Cool: The YAGNI Development Assistant.
Mising in both Visual Studio 2003 & Xcode 2.3.
(Via Jeremy D. Miller)
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May 06
Programmers and Chefs
Jeff Atwood elaborates on Programmers and Chefs inspired by the Ron Jeffries’s quote I posted a few days ago.
As always, Jeff’s thoughts are a great read. Plus, to kind of push the kitchen analogy even further, it’s always great to come up with some vague idea for a meal and someone else is doing the hard work of actually cooking the meal (and cleaning the kitchen afterwards, of course).
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May 06
Test automation capabilities
Another great quote by Ron Jeffries (this time picked up via MemoRanda):
“The only time not to automate a test ought to be if we are never going to want to run it again. But it isn’t. The more common time we don’t automate a test is because it would be ‘too hard’ to automate it. That is, however, not really a property of the test, though we like to put it that way. It’s really a property of our own test automation capability and tools.”
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May 06
Welcome…
…Uncle Bob.
Of course, you’re lucky because you don’t have one of those MacBook Pro emitting whining noises, featuring an LCD panel with brightness issues and having general excessive heat issues. But still, even with those issues, it’s still way better than anything else out there.
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May 06
On Big Upfront Design
Ron Jeffries (taken from an interview with Bruce Eckel):
“The reason the kitchen is a mess is not because the kitchen is poorly designed, it is because we did not do the dishes after every meal.”
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May 06
Hallmarks Of A Great Tester
Hallmarks Of A Great Tester – Great presentation by The Braidy Tester.
I also like the subtitle of his blog: Making developers cry since 1995.