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There's a lot to like about testing, but far too often it feels like the sort of drudge work that good programmers avoid. I'd rather write a tool to do my drud
by zacharypinter 17y ago
There's a lot to like about testing, but far too often it feels like the sort of drudge work that good programmers avoid.
I'd rather write a tool to do my drudge work for me. It seems as though testing still lacks a good tool to streamline it.
- jefffoster 17y agoI haven't worked enough with languages like Haskell to know whether this is true, but isn't the compiler this tool? I'd like to see studies as to whether statically typed languages mean less testing. After all, compilation is just an automated test for a certain class of problems, and with statically typed languages that class is larger than with a dynamic language, like Lisp. Larger, but is it more useful?