We're still figuring this stuff out. All of us.
Each semester I am giving a workshop about testing Java EE applications at the SWS. This is almost exclusively about automated developer testing.
The sad thing is, that reality as I experience it in the trenches of enterprise-IT does not even remotely resemble the current ideas of developer testing.
Adam Bien calls this discrepancy between current testing ideas and the reality Schizophrenia Driven Design.
For a long time I have been believing that if we could become real masters of developer testing, life in the trenches of enterprise-IT would become paradise. If only we could achieve that ...
But lately I feel like somebody gave me the red pill, I wonder if my trust in automated developer testing was just another desperate effort to cling to a naive fairy tale, where silver bullets actually exist...?
Here are just two more steps on my doomed journey of loosing my faith:
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