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Donald Knuth did say once that he's not much of a fan of unit tests. See his answer to the second question of his interview at: http://www.informit.com/articl
by RandomOpinion 10y ago
Donald Knuth did say once that he's not much of a fan of unit tests. See his answer to the second question of his interview at: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1193856 http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1193856
Then again, there are probably less than a dozen people at his level of ability on the entire planet so unit tests will be part of our lives for the foreseeable future.
- kwhitefoot 10y agoSurely no one is a fan of unit tests. I'm not even though I am responsible for a few hundred in the program that I work on. They are valuable for several reasons, including: writing them often exposes an unconscionable degree of coupling between the various components of the code and they often trap incautious changes when someone fixes a supposedly unrelated bug. I would need fewer of them if I could use a functional language language with a good type system like F# instead of VB and C#.