Testing

I'm close to finishing up some work on one of my first true TDD projects and it has gone great for the most part. It did take a long time to get started though. The hardest part for me was fighting the urge to just open the designer and start dropping controls.

Manual testing is immoral. Not only is it high stress, tedious, and error prone; it's just wrong to turn humans into machines. If you can write a script for a test procedure, then you can write a program to execute that procedure.

In the few years that I've worked as a software developer, I've read and seen many examples of testing software. As a result, my own thinking regarding testing has changed drastically over the past year or two. It seems that there is a continuum behind the thinking that goes behind testing. I originally titled this post "the Evolution of Testing Thought Processes" but evolution doesn't describe this as well for me, because I find myself moving between the different processes depending on the circumstances.