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10 Nov 2012
You Can't Run a Script to Test Feel
Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about automated tests for Cocoa applications and the very particular times when he finds them useful. (Hint: not ongoing maintenance.)
Links:
- Cagney & Lacey « Wikipedia
- Google search, Peter Hosey + AppCode, on Twitter
- Putting It to the Test « The Powers of Observation
- Test-driven development « Wikipedia
- Unit testing « Wikipedia
- Sen:te - OCUnit
- Chris Hanson - Xcode unit testing articles updated « LiveJournal
- Eschatology, new Chris Hanson blog
- Xcode Unit Testing Guide: About Unit Testing
- Teststands for Exploratory Code « rentzsch.com via Wayback Machine
- Expect (Unix tool) « Wikipedia
Rejected Episode Titles:
- Just Spit It Out
- We’re Going to Violently Agree, Again
- Bam! Every Test Failed
- Kent Beck Can Go off and Do That on His Time
- SYNTAX ERROR! ABORT!
- Jamming Data Directly into Your Source Code
- Real Programmers Do It Inline
- As Tabular as You Can Get
- That’s the Way I Do It, and That’s the Way I Recommend Doing It
- Ever-Increasing List of Byzantine Steps
- We Can’t All Be the Cool Kids
- That’s What It Says in the Little Box
- It’s the Lap of Luxury
- Teststands Are Supergreat
- Where Macro Technology Was in 1994
- Exactly the Kind of Tests That I Find the Most Useless
- Don’t Check for the Button