What’s in a name?
One of the things I try to encourage is the careful selection of names. Just as self-documenting code is easier to read, so is a self-documenting test. As I ...
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Benefits of designing for testability
When I started my job as a Software Test Engineer, I had very little knowledge about unit testing. I had a good degree award and a load of acronyms to put on...
L4D - Pleasure and Pain
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The big block method (binary search)
Have you ever been in this situation? You have thousands of tests in scores of assemblies. All of the tests pass. However, when you run the test suite a seco...
The pride of a programmer
I was thinking about this the other day, and something struck me (and no, it wasn’t a disgruntled developer). Automated testing is a valuable and widely acce...