He actually said that tests were a luxury? If your code doesn't work, who cares how quickly you can get it done and put out into the wild.
He has been moving over to the business side for quite some time and perhaps he has now crossed over the line? On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Jess Holle <je...@ptc.com> wrote: > Quality of software cannot be overrated. > > The utility of unit tests towards this end is often overrated, though. The > interesting/nasty things happen when you put the units together. Testing > the units (e.g. and mocking out the others) is over-emphasized as compared > to testing that *everything* works together as intended. > > > On 6/18/2010 8:51 AM, Rakesh wrote: > > I used to listen to StackOverflow but stopped after Joel Spolsky > stated that unit tests were a luxury when under pressure and quality > of software is over-rated. > > Not my kind of guy. > > Rakesh > > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Carl Jokl <carl.j...@gmail.com> > <carl.j...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On a different topic I am now making my way through Illegal Argument. > It may take a couple of weeks. Is there also another podcast called > "Stack Overflow"? > The first 3 episodes of Illegal Argument are not on iTunes. Are they > available somewhere else? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<javaposse%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- Robert Casto www.IWantFreeShipping.com Find Amazon Filler Items easily! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
