> "testing is my religion" Not religion, but a necessary tool to knowing where to focus my attention. > "here's the quantified value of me spending 3 days wri

> "testing is my religion" Not religion, but a necessary tool to knowing where to focus my attention. > "here's the quantified value of me spending 3 days writing tests and here's how that fits in the context of where our business is right now" How do I quantify 'getting the task done at all'? EDIT: I mean it. To accomplish development tasks, I need to be able to run the code I'm working on and see that it works. Are you actually suggesting that before I start a ticket, I should first do a quantitative analysis of the value of being able to do that? How?