Tag Archives: test-first

A Word Cookies Worksheet App

Posted on October 5, 2020 by Tim King

My girlfriend and I like to play a word-search game called Word Cookies!®, by BitMango. The game presents a collection of letters and an empty list of words of various lengths. It’s your job to assemble the available letters into … Continue reading →

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Reason #2 Why We Write Unit Tests

Posted on October 4, 2013 by Tim King

Seen on DamnLOL… Ninety-nine little bugs in the code, Ninety-nine little bugs! You take one down, patch it around, A hundred and seventeen bugs in the code! (See also Twelve Benefits of Writing Unit Tests First.)

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Twelve Benefits of Writing Unit Tests First

Posted on July 11, 2006 by Tim King

Why do programmers hate writing unit tests? Why do they hate even more writing unit tests before coding? You don’t have to answer. I’ve already heard the excuses. These are rhetorical questions. I have a theory, however, what the real … Continue reading →

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Manual Test-First

Posted on April 10, 2006 by Tim King

Working on a team that’s not yet onto the value of unit testing, I frequently encounter what Michael Feathers calls “legacy code.” It is not unit-tested and can’t be. That doesn’t mean I need to forget test-first.

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