Automated Testing

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1. AUTOMATED TESTING JAKUB ARNOLD
2. OUTLINE §  laziness §  fear §  manual testing §  conclusion
3. LA•ZI•NESS the quality of being unwilling to work or use energy §  avoiding unnecessary work, such as repetitive tasks §  figuring out how to do less
4. FEAR an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that something is dangerous §  programming is dangerous §  think credit card processing §  or medical equipment
5. FEAR OF CHANGE §  fear of change basically translates into fear of losing control
6. FEAR COSTS $$$ §  fear makes people reckless §  fear leads to bad decisions §  fear ultimately leads to bad productivity
7. TESTING CAN ELIMINATE FEAR §  if the test passes, you know everything works §  every time you make a change, you can verify that the system works
8. MANUAL TESTING HAS IT’S PLACE §  some things are hard to test (user interface, sensors) §  sometimes it is easier to do it manually (simulating a dumb or impatient user) §  extreme cases usually happen in production (opening big files, slow network connection)
9. CONCLUSION -  test what can be tested -  prove that your code works -  deliver high quality product -  make your customer happy
10. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION §  Test Driven Development – Kent Beck §  Extreme Programming – Kent Beck §  The Pragmatic Programmer – Dave Thomas & Andy Hunt §  Debug It – Paul Butcher §  Pragmatic Thinking and Learning – Andy Hunt §  The Agile Samurai – Jonathan Rasmusson §  Rework – Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson §  Getting Real – 37signals §  and many, many others …