The Optimal UnitTesting environment II

6 July 2009 mhaecker

In the [last episode](http://agile42.com/cms/blog/2009/07/1/optimal-unittesting-environment/) I talked about the huge difference it makes to automate the execution of [unit tests](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_testing) on each file save.

Martin Häcker
I'm a developer working for Agile42 to bring Agilo to the next level.

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6 July 2009

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Scrum, Training

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browsers, qunit, unittesting

In the last episode I talked about the huge difference it makes to automate the execution of unit tests on each file save.

This is all great and good - if you have the luxury to work with a language which can be reached from the shell.

Since we work with lots of JavaScript in the development of Agilo for Scrum, we have a problem. Of course there are tools like Narwhal that make it much easier to also run JS from the shell, but its not the same, and also it's very hard to debug javascript in there if ...

The optimal UnitTesting environment

30 June 2009 mhaecker

I want to tell you about the joys of automation today - the joy of having your test run just whenever you save one of your files.

Martin Häcker
I'm a developer working for Agile42 to bring Agilo to the next level.

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30 June 2009

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General, Scrum

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tdd, unittesting

I want to tell you about the joys of automation today - the joy of having your test run just whenever you save one of your files.

Because this is the thing - you cannot deliver high quality software with your Scrum implementation every month without having great engineering practices. If you don't have them, you can still deliver something every month and know exactly where you stand - but the quality will not be there. This is where practices like Unit Testing and Test Driven Development come in, as they are some of the best ways to improve quality that we ...