CHAPTER 8Test, Test, Test, andTest Again
And then test again! By now, you know I like to try to be funny, and most of the time I fail. We all have to fail at something, right? Regardless, the title of this chapter is not a joke on my part. After 20 plus years of enterprise application development, I've found that the actual application development process for programmers consists of three high-level tasks:
- Coding
- Testing
- Documenting
The graph in Figure 8-1 is what I consider the ideal distribution of time for those three tasks. Yes, that's 60% of the development time spent on testing. The first response I get from most developers and project managers is, "Wow, that's an awful lot of time for testing, isn't it?" Not really. All the time you ...
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