Testing in the Trenches (TinT) is an occasional series recounting some of the experiences I have had as a Unit Testing evangelist on various projects. Where appropriate, any references to actual details have been sanitized to protect the participants. This post is adapted from a regular email that I sent to the team, to promote and educate about testing. I secretly called these my Unit Test Propaganda Messages. For a while now, I have been promoting among the team the idea of automated testing, especially Unit Testing, as a means to improve both our lives as developers and our software for our clients. Recently, I was listening to a Software Engineering Radio podcast , and the speaker mentioned seven different kinds of automated testing that they do in his organization. The speaker was Mike Barker, talking about his work on the LMAX architecture, and the seven kinds of automated testing he named (around the 50-minute mark) were: Unit Tests, Integration Tests, Accep...
Musings on Tests, Quality, Tools, Projects and more. By Steve Page