Monday, September 13, 2004

People get ready there's a testing train a comin'

I am big into test driven development, couldn't get my head round it at first, but I think I have got the hang of it.

For anything I intend to write I first think of a test, write the test and then write the code. It's fab. As you go along you build up a lovely test harness that always gives you confidence that your code is solid whenever you make a change.

Junit is a utility that supports TDD in java and a fella has even had a go in Lotusscript. In the notes environment I can see an agent that tests all the classes in a set of script libraries, it may be more tricky with the UI. Although these tools are handy I reckon you could adopt the approach without them.

Really it's a revelation ... hell, I think I am ready to testify

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