Looking for developer guidelines for planning for testing

[lvirden]

As I read through various books on testing and QA, I see authors mention
that it is much better to plan for testing during design and development
than to try to retrofit testing support later.

And that seems like a very obvious point to make.

What I've not found is good advice and recommendations to a developer on
how to do this. Anyone found any good resources, or at least good
recommendations, on how to productively plan during design and development
for testing so that one achieves consistent support in the code?

 

[Chris Smith]

As I read through various books on testing and QA, I see authors mention
that it is much better to plan for testing during design and development
than to try to retrofit testing support later.

And that seems like a very obvious point to make.

What I've not found is good advice and recommendations to a developer on
how to do this. Anyone found any good resources, or at least good
recommendations, on how to productively plan during design and development
for testing so that one achieves consistent support in the code?

For the extreme position, try looking for the term "test driven
development". Doing this for a while certainly teaches a person to
write testable code.

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Chris Smith - Lead Software Developer/Technical Trainer
MindIQ Corporation

 

[Drew Volpe]

As I read through various books on testing and QA, I see authors mention
that it is much better to plan for testing during design and development
than to try to retrofit testing support later.

And that seems like a very obvious point to make.

Unit tests built into the code at every stage of development are
a great way to accomplish this. It's hard to stay disciplined and
make sure they're automated and run nightly/weekly, but doing
so is very valuable.



dv

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[Bob Kranson]

I've used Compuware's Reconcile to create requirements, QADirector to track
their implementation and develop test cases, then QARun to implement tests
and trace back to the requirements. Have a look:
http://www.compuware.com/products/#quality or a more unified web-view using
CARS: http://www.compuware.com/products/cars/default.htm

 

[Phlip]

What I've not found is good advice and recommendations to a developer on
how to do this. Anyone found any good resources, or at least good
recommendations, on how to productively plan during design and development
for testing so that one achieves consistent support in the code?

If developers write tests at the same time as they write code, they will
trade many hours running a debugger for just a few hours writing tests. They
make writing the code faster. Research /Test Driven Development/.