Chapter 9The Time Crunched
Let’s go back to that meeting I had in the introduction, Chapter 1, Why This Book?. I was discussing with other managers the need to move to a new version of the application server.
Their main objection was that they had code that they were confident in, and moving to another server would require them to test and potentially miss bugs that could embarrass them in front of their constituents. I suggested unit testing as a solution to this, and their first objection was “It would take too much time.”
In fact, almost every argument I ever had with this group boiled down to that they didn’t have enough time. It didn’t matter that many other problems within their group would have been mitigated by unit tests. It didn’t ...
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