Comments on: Retrofitting Tests – Do Whatever Necessary http://www.xerxesb.com/2009/retrofitting-tests-do-whatever-necessary/ 'Cause there are some things you just *can't* get from a book... Fri, 12 Nov 2010 21:27:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: David http://www.xerxesb.com/2009/retrofitting-tests-do-whatever-necessary/comment-page-1/#comment-2705 David Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:32:58 +0000 http://www.xerxesb.com/?p=233#comment-2705 Thanks for the great post. I learned the same lesson from "Working With Legacy Code" -- each test, no matter how ugly, gives you another opportunity to improve the code. Without tests you're stuck with the bad code, but once you start adding them then the code has started on the path to cleanliness :). > "...I shouldn’t let the imperfection of testing stop me from testing at all" Your colleague has good advice :). Voltaire is quoted ad nauseum as writing something like "The perfect is the enemy of the good", and I have to constantly remind myself of this while coding. Thanks for the great post. I learned the same lesson from “Working With Legacy Code” — each test, no matter how ugly, gives you another opportunity to improve the code. Without tests you’re stuck with the bad code, but once you start adding them then the code has started on the path to cleanliness :) .

> “…I shouldn’t let the imperfection of testing stop me from testing at all”

Your colleague has good advice :) . Voltaire is quoted ad nauseum as writing something like “The perfect is the enemy of the good”, and I have to constantly remind myself of this while coding.

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