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Christopher Pitt is a principal developer for SilverStripe in Wellington, New Zealand. He usually works on open source software, though sometimes you'll find him building compilers and robots.
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Eat your vegetables


Is there something you really don't like to eat? Perhaps it's a kind of vegetable or fruit. When I was a kid, there were many things I didn't like to eat. I couldn't even remember what many of them tasted like, and they didn't hurt me. I just made up my mind that they were bad, and I didn't like them.

Some developers have similar habits. Are there things you don't like to do as a developer? Not because they're difficult or bad, but just because...

For me, testing was one of those things. I learned about testing many years after I started programming, and it's still something I need to actively work on. I know why it's good, and why the common arguments against testing are bad. Still, I need to convince myself to continually test my work well.

I had to learn that it's not enough just to click through an interface, that testing isn't really testing unless it can be run automatically, that testing isn't really useful unless it happens continuously, and that testing is often...

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Christopher Pitt is a principal developer for SilverStripe in Wellington, New Zealand. He usually works on open source software, though sometimes you'll find him building compilers and robots.
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