Comments on: Unit testing is dumb

By: Mangy Dog

Mangy Dog — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:45:42 +0000

I can’t believe we are still arguing that tests are necessary – this must be fear based, fear of what? Fear of being found out (transparency), fear of change.

By: Unit testing is dumb « Ballinger’s Professional Blog

Unit testing is dumb « Ballinger’s Professional Blog — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 03:20:41 +0000

[...] Unit testing is dumb Alex Miller – Unit testing is dumb “… testing “trivial” classes and code feels dumb…right up to the point where it saves your ###.” Another good article about the uses of unit testing. (via dzone) [...]

By: Ryan Ginstrom

Ryan Ginstrom — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:13:28 +0000

One way to test your unit tests is to “sabotage” your code, and make sure that this makes your tests fail. heckle in ruby looks like an interesting way to automate the sabotage process :)

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:52:48 +0000

Yes, I've blogged about this before as well in Weaving the Test Fabric. In other words, to misappropriate Linus's Law: "given enough code, all tests are shallow". :)

By: David Herron

David Herron — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:42:41 +0000

Good ideas.. at the same time don’t get lost thinking your testing is done just because you’ve written some unit tests. Unit testing reminds me of checking that every word is right spelled while verifying not grammar correct.