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My New Book is Available (as eBook)
Submitted by James Bach on Wed, 08/07/2009 - 00:36.Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar is now available in electronic form. You can get it from Simon & Schuster, or less expensively on the Kindle from Amazon.com.The book is about learning. It’s about alternatives to schooling and certification. But it also describes how I became a tester, and why I progressed as a tester.The hardcover version, [...]
Why are we embarrassed to admit that we don't know how to write tests?
Submitted by noreply@blogger.com (Misko) on Wed, 08/07/2009 - 17:50.Take your average developer and ask "do you know language/technology X?" None of us will feel any shame in admitting that we do not know X. After all there are so many languages, frameworks and technologies, how could you know them all? But what if X is writing testable code? Somehow we have trouble answering the question "do you know how to write tests?" Everyone says yes, whether or not we actually know it. It is as if there is some shame in admitting that you don't know how to write tests.