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| July 7, 2006, 13:56 | |
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Rhovanion
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On another board there was a discussion about testing. Thay said that most people think testing is unimportant and pointless, as long as the program runs it is fine. What do you think? I think testing is one of the most important tasks in a project. But sometimes it is a pain to test all the malfunctions yourself. ____________ |
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| July 7, 2006, 19:30 | |
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PEader
お前はもう死んでいる 1486 posts 
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Quoting Rhovanion: On another board there was a discussion about testing. Thay said that most people think testing is unimportant and pointless, as long as the program runs it is fine. What do you think? I think testing is one of the most important tasks in a project. But sometimes it is a pain to test all the malfunctions yourself. What does run mean? Like sying that it runs is a bit vague. There are things called unit tests which can automatically test your code. Anyone who doesn't test their code is telling lies. So they just write it and that is it, it works? Or do you mean checking for bugs? Everything has to be tested to some degree. People are coming up with more and more cool automatic tests and lints though. ____________ I see 57,005 people. |
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| July 7, 2006, 20:44 | |
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Eckolin
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Quoting PEader: So they just write it and that is it, it works? It can be done, but testing isn't that bad... ____________ Maker of Games... Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Need help with coding? I probably wrote something similar. |
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| July 7, 2006, 20:53 | |
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PEader
お前はもう死んでいる 1486 posts
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Quoting Eckolin: Quoting PEader: So they just write it and that is it, it works? It can be done, but testing isn't that bad... YEah eckolin how many people do you know that can write perfect software that works on the first compile? ____________ I see 57,005 people. |
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| July 8, 2006, 09:43 | |
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Eckolin
Quite Whiskered 388 posts
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Not an awful lot.
____________ Maker of Games... Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Need help with coding? I probably wrote something similar. |
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| July 23, 2006, 14:11 | |
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PB
Defender of the faith 630 posts 
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Isn't that what they did at Microsoft?  Anyway, at least with Java, you have to write your own Unit tests (don't know how it works with other languages). So it actually takes more effort at first (although once the tests are written, edited code can easilly be tested again). ____________ |
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| August 6, 2006, 23:08 | |
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Rhovanion
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testing is like... i.e. in Fenix you use a lot of say(); commands... or is that debugging?
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| August 7, 2006, 10:55 | |
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Mezzmer
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that is what i would call debugging. program testing in a professional market is even more important that product testing. imagine the tinyest bug in your program that crashes the whole fucking thing, wouldn't that really piss you off? it's only moral, ethical and professional to have a fully tested program. after all a bad bug in a game can really annoy, sometimes destroy the whole experience. another example is like a crashed computer cashpoint or computerised phonebooth. if you have seen it you really wonder who the heck can be allowed to design these things. ____________ |
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| August 12, 2006, 22:59 | |
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Rhovanion
Exterminated 666 posts |
there's this program testing company I got an offer from to work for. Many people think testing is unimportant and should therefore be skipped. But if you invest in testing you get more profit eventually, by offering customers better quality. Old games such as CS have many gliches because testing wasn't so popular back then...
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