And the results are in...

We have some great results from the recent triathlon posts (see Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 here). To inspire some of you who are still watching on the sidelines, here are some of our favorite responses so far.

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Posted by Caitrin McCullough on Tuesday, Jun 10 Permalink | Comments (2)

Unit testing and the narrowly averted Citicorp Center disaster

(This post was syndicated from Building Better Software.)

I was working on a project earlier today. Now, typically I always do test-driven development, where I'll build unit tests that verify each class first and then build the code for the class after the tests are done. But once in a while, I'll do a small, quick and dirty project, and I'll think to myself, "Do I really need to write unit tests?" And then, as I start building it, it's obvious: yes, I do. It always comes at a point where I've added one or two classes, and I realize that I have no idea if those classes actually work. I'll realize that I've written a whole bunch of code, and I haven't tested any of it. And that starts making me nervous. So I turn around and start writing unit tests for the classes I've written so far… and I always find bugs. This time was no exception.

This time, for some reason, that exercise reminded me of the story of the nearly disastrous Citicorp Center building.

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Posted by Andrew Stellman on Thursday, Jun 5 Permalink | Comments (0)