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testng, testing (Score:1)

by pemungkah (3)

Ditto on originally not wanting to write tests. The day job still is a situation difficult to unit test, mostly because the code's grown over the past 5 years to such an extent as to be almost unrecognizable.

However, outside of this, I use Test::Simple lots and am very, very happy with it. It turns the process into just another simple-to-do operation. And it caught a bug in GraphViz::Data:Structure that I still don't know how to fix yet, but at least I know it exists!
Testing paradox (Score:2)

by Ovid (2709)

I have this weird problem that I am addicted to experiencing new things (whether programming related or otherwise), but at the same time I am resistant to change. I was always curious about testing, but I didn't want to change my routine at work, even though I knew it was necessary. Now that I've gotten over the hump, I'm addicted.

Testing seems like grunt work to many programmers, but what has really sold me is the problem I used to have: whenever I would make large-scale changes to a system, I would h

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