Aug 25 2008  The importance of testing  Category: Best
PracticesMatt @ 09:41  Grad school just started back for me
today, so this is going to be a short post.  Hopefully I'll
still be able to do three (hopefully high-quality) posts a week
once things stabilize.  I ran into an issue today where one of
the systems that I maintain at my day job had been rendered
completely unusable by a series of code changes that had been
committed over the last month.  The particular system in
question is mostly a web forms app, so it's a bit difficult to
unit test and therefore has very low test coverage.  Because of
that, it falls to the developer making changes to thoroughly
test things manually in most cases.  Today, it became evident
that this unwritten rule of testing was no longer being followed
AT ALL.  In one case, the code modifications sort-of worked. 
It's conceivable that the developer making the changes tested
them, but failed to test thoroughly enough to notice that he
completely broke the vast majority of the e