Wow, automated tests are saving my ass right now

[afuna]

When I first did renames, I didn't have the concept of a rename token object -- I had the shop item, and then I was doing a bunch of stuff directly in DW::Rename. At some point, I rethought, and encapsulated some of that logic into a new class DW::RenameToken, and I had to do a lot of tweaks to what I had already done to accommodate it.

I'm so *absolutely grateful* that szabgab did such a job towards making existing tests usable, because that put tests in mind when I first started doing the renames module, and I felt obliged to take the time to wrote a few simple tests.

Now the tests are failing, and in all the ways that point out to me where my old assumptions no longer bear weight under the new/tweaked code. They have paid for themselves many times over.

Now how do we convince others to write more of these things? :-)

Comments

[azurelunatic]

Congratulations on your latest round of safe failure!

[pauamma]

Now how do we convince others to write more of these things?

Good question. Offhand, what fraction of the bugs in committed and pushed code (which are for obvious reasons the ones we most want to avoid) do you think would have been spotted by appropriate tests?

[synecdochic]

Now how do we convince others to write more of these things? :-)

Write out a detailed explanation of what tests are, how to write them, and why we should write them, suitable for a four-year-old child, so that new programmers who are Very Slow, aka me, know what the hell to do? :)

[miome.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of one of my favorite sayings, "if it's not tested, it's broken".