[Pdx-pm] sneaking tests into work
Michael G Schwern
schwern at pobox.com
Wed Feb 21 08:17:15 PST 2007
Ovid wrote:
> --- Eric Wilhelm <scratchcomputing at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If you're under a lot of time pressure, you might be told that you
>> shouldn't be stopping to write tests. In this case, making them part
>
>> of your development should help.
>
> When I first learned testing, I made the mistake of including the time
> for that as a separate line item on an estimate I turned in. My boss
> scratched it off. Ever since then, I folded "time for testing" into
> any estimate I turned in.
The argument I like to use is that "non-productive" items like "commenting" or "indenting" or "version control" are not separate line items either. Why should testing be?
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