Episode 2: Unitless Tests

Our second podcast. This one got away from us in length, but it all adds up. Somehow. Does a project’s implementation strategy affect team dynamics? What if you couldn’t include tests in your source tree? Digressions abound!

In this episode:

• Implications of architecture on team dynamics
• Programmer apathy
• The programmer hero
• The need to add value
• What if you couldn’t use unit tests?
• Confidence
• Metrics, instrumentation, data gathering and the real world
• Build systems just build
• App testing applications
• Testable apps
• Black box testing
• Domain experts and the unautomatable
• What can be confidently tested isn’t worth testing?
• Prepare for the un-preparable
• Breaking the build
• Baroque unit tests
• Unit tests as symptoms of a larger problem
• Bugs don’t matter until they matter
• The legacy of black box testability