I’ve been volunteering with a FIRST robotics high school team as a programming mentor. Due to a “series of unfortunate events”, we didn’t get to test our logic to drive straight in autonomous mode until the night the robot went into the crate.
We wound up using an interesting approach. First we brainstormed options and prioritized [...]

Earlier in the month, I blogged a response to – “What would you say is the average percentage of development time devoted to creating the unit test scripts?”.  As I was telling a friend about it, I realized that I missed an important point!
The question also implies that development time is constant.  Or maybe not.   [...]

How long does it take to compile? We don’t ask that. It would be absurd. The fact that people ask how long unit testing takes mean they see it as an optional cost to be incurred. What I want to know is why they don’t ask for a similar accounting of the cost of NOT [...]