DEV Community

Discussion on: 3- Why Should I Write Tests While Developing Software?

 
hamitseyrek profile image
Hamit SEYREK

First of all, thank you for sharing your ideas. I'm learning some things from all of you and it makes me think :)
I also partially agree with both of you. A manual test is always needed in projects where user experience is very important. But when working with DevOps teams, automated testing is vital to the process. Automated tests are also more cost-effective as they do not require constant control.

Thread Thread
 
jwp profile image
John Peters

Hi Mike, true story: I once put in a fix on an IBM midrange that was declared defective in a week. Total cost was over $1 million USD because it went through 37 translations for each country. They didn't fire me, but I had checked out about 10 books on Software testing. The best was from Boris Bezier. That's how I picked up skilled testing techniques.