Unit testing is to be done by developers most of the time. However, I agree that this is just not that effective unless succeeded by integration & stress testing..... Clearly,we need a lot of different testing at different levels before we even think of our products being useful. unit tests being over-rated or not,will depend on the results from the same.
Regards, jd On 6/18/10, 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> 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. > 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. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
