Practices of an Agile Developer

  22   Automate Acceptance Testing

“All right, so your unit tests verify your code does what you think it should. Ship it. We’ll find out if it’s what the customers want soon enough.”

You’ve worked with the users to develop the features they want, but now you need to make sure the data they’re getting is correct—or at least correct from their point of view.

Andy was on a project a few years ago where their industry standard considered 12 a.m. as the last minute of the day, and 12:01 a.m. as the first minute of the new day (typically, business ...