Chapter 10. Paying Attention to Disciplines: Unit Testing
I’m an older guy, and the bulk of my career predates most of the ideas I am putting in this book. Testing definitely qualifies. It’s not that I didn’t believe in testing during those years, I just didn’t think it was my job. I thought it was a different domain, the domain of Quality Assurance, and that the QA people were there to catch my code as I tossed it over the wall to them.
Of course, I also sort of dreaded doing that, because I knew they were unlikely to come back with news I was eager to hear. In fact, without meaning to, I came to think of QA as “the enemy” to a certain degree.
So, when people like Kent Beck, Ron Jeffries, Ward Cunningham, and others starting promoting the idea ...
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