Poll: Do you test your code?

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Post by petenixey » Wed, Mar 14, 2012, 12:26 PM UTC

Do you have tests that run every time you push and ensure that the functionality on your site works?

There's always a lot of debate around testing and I'm interested to see how much people do and how satisfied they are with it

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Re: Poll: Do you test your code?

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Post by gbog » Wed, Mar 14, 2012, 12:52 PM UTC

We have a test suite covering most of the code. We'd like to do more testing are doinh it.

Re: Poll: Do you test your code?

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Mar 14, 2012, 12:52 PM UTC

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Post by mraxilus » Wed, Mar 14, 2012, 12:53 PM UTC

Indeed. Travis-ci.

Re: Poll: Do you test your code?

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Post by darinrogers » Wed, Mar 14, 2012, 2:02 PM UTC

In my experience, on projects with often-run automated unit test suites with good coverage, development goes faster. Part of this might be because for code to be highly testable, it usually also has to be well-designed and architecturally sound.

Re: Poll: Do you test your code?

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Post by shin_lao » Wed, Mar 14, 2012, 2:35 PM UTC

Never forget you write software, not tests. Tests are here to increase quality, they have no raison d'être by themselves.

Re: Poll: Do you test your code?

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Post by peteretep » Wed, Mar 14, 2012, 2:40 PM UTC

People ... don't have tests? o_O In 2012?

I am seriously considering putting together a "Software Engineering for Small Teams" course or set of articles. With a little bit of expertise, you can inject testing in to most projects, use the minimum of Agile that'll help, and generally massively raise your game - and by that I mean code faster, better, and more reliably, with considerably less stress.

(edited: turns out I forgot which year we're in :-P)

Re: Poll: Do you test your code?

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Post by kevinherron » Wed, Mar 14, 2012, 2:40 PM UTC

I don't believe anybody that says they test all functionality. Most? Sure. All? No way. Not in a non-trivial codebase.

Article about the group that writes the space shuttle software, sort of relevant?: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/06/writestuff.html

Re: Poll: Do you test your code?

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Post by tfb » Wed, Mar 14, 2012, 2:42 PM UTC

Where's the option for "We thoroughly and immediately test every change (and all affected processes) ourselves to also ensure UX is top notch"?

Re: Poll: Do you test your code?

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Post by peteretep » Wed, Mar 14, 2012, 2:43 PM UTC

kevinherron wrote: post #8

I don't believe anybody that says they test all functionality. Most? Sure. All? No way. Not in a non-trivial codebase. Article about the group that writes the space shuttle software, sort of relevant?: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/06/writestuff.html

Well, there's `all` and there's virtually all. All is 100% branch and statement coverage, and is a big waste of time.

When I saw my codebase has 'all' functionality tested, I mean we don't commit code without tests included too. I think that's a pretty reasonable definition.