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Grading on a curve, Testing the tester, Forgetting to refactor...

Grading on a curve, Testing the tester, Forgetting to refactor...

Michael Hunter is Grading On A Curve: "A topic I've been pondering of late is grading test cases. If I have two test cases that appear to do exactly the same thing, how do I decide which one to keep and which one to turn off? If I am wading though a large number of failing or unstable test cases that I inherited from someone else, how do I decide which ones are worth spending time on and which should just be thrown away?"

Johan Danforth is asking who is testing the tester?: "I've been using JUnit and NUnit in smaller and larger projects, but I've never used it in the way you often see it described in books written by the TDD-gurus and the way it is described in this book. I can't help it, but it feels kind of stupid to create a test as first thing you do."

Steve Hayes points the issue with forgetting to refactor: "I looked at what I had done, and it worked, and the interfaces were ok (thanks to TDD for that), but the internals of each class just weren't where they should be."

MSF for Agile Software Development has been released.