Re: Unit testing framework suggestions?
Re: Unit testing framework suggestions?
- Subject: Re: Unit testing framework suggestions?
- From: Marco Scheurer <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 13:12:34 +0200
On Sep 26, 2004, at 01:41, Georg Tuparev wrote:
On Sep 24, 2004, at 2:51 PM, Marco Scheurer wrote:
Not really if you run your tests after each change, or frequently (at
least daily). A lot of our users actually prefer to keep the tests
separated from the code, in a different target or a different
project.
Why?
One reason is to avoid deploying the test code and the testing
framework (although I think that in some cases it can be nice to be
able to run the tests at the customer's site).
Some cases? Always! This saved us many debugging hours.
Yes, especially for custom software, having the possibility to ask your
customer to launch the application in test mode in his environment can
be helpful.
However, most of our users told us they wanted to be able to ship
without the tests and the testing infrastructure. This also make sense,
especially for "shrink-wrap": they are some issues with installing and
depending on a 3rd party framework.
So we leave that choice to our users.
And users are in general impressed. When they see that your program
has 3000 tests, they are really impressed! And because we test UI too,
they think it is fun too - too see all these windows hopping around.
BTW, we had one client who told us to keep the tests always on. This
"helped him to understand better developers intentions"...
Funny, some say that you write tests to better understand the customer
intentions... ;-)
marco
Marco Scheurer
Sen:te, Lausanne, Switzerland http://www.sente.ch
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