Franck MIKULECZ's List: Testing

• some people need stress to move forward
• keep doing it, keep introducing new ideas. Gradually, patiently. People will get influenced by you ideas

• developers spend maybe 20% extra time writing automated tests, compared to a project with no automated testing at all
• written after the features are delivered
• However automated tests by themselves do not help focus and validate the development efforts the way ATDD does.
• ATDD and TDD delivered projects 31% faster with 4 times fewer defects
• using TDD reduced defects by between 40% and 90%, although it increased initial development time by 15-35%. The teams did agree however that this increase was offset by lower maintenance costs.

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• orce applications to fail in predictable ways by submitting huge batches of data at once
• Cost reduction via open source software and cloud hardware
• cloud computing hardware resources
• "maintaining testing environments had been rather problematic."
• figure out how to replicate the production servers
• test the application in a lab
• it's possible to "just spin up a virtual platform for testing, and when the testing is completed, those resources just disappear,"
• choosing open source over commercial products means investing time and energy instead of cold hard cash

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