Comments on: A Quick Thought On UI Testing http://blog.james-carr.org/2007/07/01/a-quick-thought-on-ui-testing/ Rants and Musings of an Agile Developer Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:12:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Guillaume http://blog.james-carr.org/2007/07/01/a-quick-thought-on-ui-testing/#comment-24970 Guillaume Mon, 02 Jul 2007 12:47:27 +0000 http://blog.james-carr.org/?p=84#comment-24970 It depends: if your text is dynamic and selected for this specific page from some kind of repository (map, db, whatever), that could be a useful test to check that the correct page is displayed, and not another one... But yeah, the situation you describes (static text) looks like theoretical-school-like TDD, not a real case. Any real TDDer knows not to waste time on doing EVERYTHING using TDD. Don't we? For your blog test, I guess if you write your blog engine using TDD, then you don't need to test each post (I know it was a joke, but still). It depends: if your text is dynamic and selected for this specific page from some kind of repository (map, db, whatever), that could be a useful test to check that the correct page is displayed, and not another one… But yeah, the situation you describes (static text) looks like theoretical-school-like TDD, not a real case. Any real TDDer knows not to waste time on doing EVERYTHING using TDD. Don’t we?

For your blog test, I guess if you write your blog engine using TDD, then you don’t need to test each post (I know it was a joke, but still).

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