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I absolutely agreed that writing high quality, maintainable tests is hard (in fact, I say so in the article). My point is really that the way testing is discuss
by th3james 13y ago
I absolutely agreed that writing high quality, maintainable tests is hard (in fact, I say so in the article). My point is really that the way testing is discussed, particularly in the Ruby community, makes testing seem more complicated than it is, and I think puts some people off.
- waterlion 13y agoI think that's more to do with the Ruby community than unit testing. They seem obsessed with new DSLs for everything.
- mercurial 13y agoI'm not sure this point really gets through. The way the article read to me was "Testing is simple and easy (1)" 1: small print - writing good tests is hard I could likewise argue that "writing code is simple and easy, but writing good code is hard", but this statement has little value in itself. It seems more an argument against using complex testing frameworks and going for simpler syntax. As a fan of Nose, I absolutely agree.