http://johannesbrodwall.com/2008/11/25/programmers-who-write-tests-get-more-time-to-program/ Johannes Brodwall's Musings on Software Architecture and Programming Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:37:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://johannesbrodwall.com/2008/11/25/programmers-who-write-tests-get-more-time-to-program/comment-page-1/#comment-127622 Filip van Laenen Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:29:18 +0000 http://brodwall.com/johannes/blog/2008/11/25/programmers-who-write-tests-get-more-time-to-program/#comment-127622 Here's something I learned recently: if you hate writing test code, you should definitely write the test code before you write your application code, and not afterwards. If you write the test code afterwards, you'll probably use more time to write the tests, partly because you then have to figure out how you are going to test your application code, and partly because you'll have to change parts of your original application code. Plus that things won't work because of the bugs, so you'll spend even more time in the writing test code phase. If you write the test code, you'll be in the writing application code almost the whole time! Here's something I learned recently: if you hate writing test code, you should definitely write the test code before you write your application code, and not afterwards. If you write the test code afterwards, you'll probably use more time to write the tests, partly because you then have to figure out how you are going to test your application code, and partly because you'll have to change parts of your original application code. Plus that things won't work because of the bugs, so you'll spend even more time in the writing test code phase. If you write the test code, you'll be in the writing application code almost the whole time!

]]> http://johannesbrodwall.com/2008/11/25/programmers-who-write-tests-get-more-time-to-program/comment-page-1/#comment-99296 Filip van Laenen Wed, 26 Nov 2008 07:29:18 +0000 http://brodwall.com/johannes/blog/2008/11/25/programmers-who-write-tests-get-more-time-to-program/#comment-99296 Here's something I learned recently: if you hate writing test code, you should definitely write the test code before you write your application code, and not afterwards. If you write the test code afterwards, you'll probably use more time to write the tests, partly because you then have to figure out how you are going to test your application code, and partly because you'll have to change parts of your original application code. Plus that things won't work because of the bugs, so you'll spend even more time in the writing test code phase. If you write the test code, you'll be in the writing application code almost the whole time! Here's something I learned recently: if you hate writing test code, you should definitely write the test code before you write your application code, and not afterwards. If you write the test code afterwards, you'll probably use more time to write the tests, partly because you then have to figure out how you are going to test your application code, and partly because you'll have to change parts of your original application code. Plus that things won't work because of the bugs, so you'll spend even more time in the writing test code phase. If you write the test code, you'll be in the writing application code almost the whole time!

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