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The study is about the effects of "test first" vs "test later", not "writing tests" vs "not having tests".

• EdSharkey 10y ago
  Yeah, I tried to avoid specifying a methodology. I just couldn't resist throwing in a 'TDD' because it turns better quality results for me personally than 'test later'. My point in commenting was: testing comprehensively is not optional at my workplace due to the way the devs have suddenly been held so accountable. Personally, I don't care how you test. Just get decent coverage over all the control paths and have a test suite that catches regression bugs. Ideally also have integration tests to prove your connections to your partners are good and maybe a smoke test to prove your code is wired up right once it hits an environment. I'm still on the journey myself, so I can't claim to be an expert. I know there are people in my org that are suffering because of code quality issues. I call them incompetent because they're producing shoddy work products with lots of defects. A smart way to combat bugs and kill them for good is to test, so that's why I connect not testing to incompetence. A dumb way to combat bugs is heroics and working 18 hour work days trying to debug with "GOT HERE" logging.