4 Tasty testing
This chapter covers
- Why we hate testing and how we can love it
- How to make testing more enjoyable
- Avoiding TDD, BDD, and other three-letter acronyms
- Deciding what to test
- Doing less work using tests
- Making tests spark joy
Many software developers would liken testing to writing a book: it’s tedious, nobody likes doing it, and it rarely pays off. Compared to coding, testing is considered a second-class activity, not doing the real work. Testers are subjected to a preconception that they have it too easy.
The reason for the dislike of testing is that we developers see it as disconnected from building software. From a programmer’s perspective, building software is all about writing code, whereas from a manager’s vantage point, it’s ...
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