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Discussion on: Top Mistakes That Developers Make

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Max Ong Zong Bao

Nice compilation of things we need to do especially on both the doing manual testing and documentation is something I hate someone tell me they don't have much time. In writing test cases and incrementally update their documentation from scratch to save time and effort to support, maintain and upgrade a system,

I more to add on is that you might miss out is talking in technical jargons to people. As if they know how what it means. Following the "Keep It Simple Stupid" is what one should do when explaining it to a no-technical or technical person is the right way to go.

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John Au-Yeung

I think we can combine them with automated tests.

They serve as good documentation and reduce the burden of testing manually.

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Max Ong Zong Bao • Edited

I think there still has to have some form of documentation. Definitely having automated tests helps a lot in reducing the manual testing away.

I had an ex-colleague who swears to use manual testing and he gave me the reason. That he will forget it or unable to fix it if it runs into an error. Which I just shrugged it aside as him being stuck to his ways of thinking that can be a very slippy slope.

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John Au-Yeung

Yea. Once he tries it, pretty sure he can't go back to testing everything manually.