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Re: Are you really using JUnit during your development?

by Cédric Beust ♔ :: Rate this Message:

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On 8/2/06, Kevin Lawrence <kev.lawrence@...> wrote:
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>
> It's tempting to start a new thread asking if there is anyone NOT
> using junit during development ;-)


Not everybody uses JUnit, you know...

Three or four times around this loop and you will probably also wonder
> how you ever managed without unit tests.


The problem is usually more along the lines of "How can I manage with unit
tests?".  As the original poster pointed out, the reality depicted in books
about testing is very different from the real world, and practical advice
for that is fairly scarce (yes, I read Michael Feather's book).

Many newcomers to automated unit tests expect to be able to test their
> code with no changes or are reluctant to make changes /just/ to make
> it easier to test... they often give up on the whole deal because they
> find it too hard.


That's one reason, there are plenty of others, such as "We're approaching a
deadline and I have to add this feature for our customer, so I'll do that
instead of adding a test".

--
Cédric
http://testng.org


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