Re: [ESSAY] “Writing tests, motherfuc ker!”

On Jan 26, 2013, at 1:13 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote:

> However, now I feel that trying to
> philosophise about the distinction between all those is not so useful for the
> people who are actually trying to write the tests.


+1000

I once had fervent debates with colleagues about whether something was a "unit test" or "integration test" or "acceptance test".  I always felt the distinction was pointless, but now I understand why it happened.

Unit tests were regarded as the developer's realm.  Integration tests are the build engineer's responsibility.  And acceptance tests might belong to QA.  So labeling tests serves as a means for allocating work (and blame).

Fortunately, I've seen more and more organizations dismantle their QA teams completely.  Quality is everyone's responsibility.

Now, somebody, just write the damn test :)

-Jeff