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Functional Tests as a Tree of Continuations (2010)

As A Tree Of Continuations By Evan Miller June 15, 2010 One of the most essential practices for maintaining the long-term quality of computer code is to write automated tests that ensure the program continues to act as expected, even when other people (including your future self) muck with it. Test code is often longer than the code that is being tested.

One of the most essential practices for maintaining the long-term quality of computer code is to write automated tests that ensure the program continues to act as expected, even when other people (including your future self) muck with it. Sometimes you can abstract out the logic into setup() and teardown() functions, and put the fake data needed for tests into things called fixtures. My desktop statistics software Wizard can help you analyze more data in less time and communicate discoveries visually without spending days struggling with pointless command syntax.

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