Over a year ago we stumbled
upon the XP web page and applied two of the concepts espoused at that time: pair programming and automated unit
testing. We were drawn initially to try the automated unit testing. I would like to report that the unit testing
effort has returned huge dividends. We implemented Kent Beck's Simple Smalltalk Testing: With Patterns approach
and implemented a "killer" user interface to organize, initiate tests and collect results. The initial
effort
and learning curve was well worth the time investment. We have a dramatic increase in quality and an associated
decrease in the overall test, find & fix intervals.
Over a year ago we stumbled
upon the XP web page and applied two of the concepts espoused at that time: pair programming and automated unit
testing. We were drawn initially to try the automated unit testing. I would like to report that the unit testing
effort has returned huge dividends. We implemented Kent Beck's Simple Smalltalk Testing: With Patterns approach
and implemented a "killer" user interface to organize, initiate tests and collect results. The initial
effort
