XP Iterations
XP works in iterations, that is on a specific set of features for a specified iteration period. Usually, this period is 1-3 weeks, as determined by the team. But I think that for most, the amount of testing that you do is more than normal at this stage, but it makes sense. However, I can tell I'm not completely in the XP mindset because I'm not used to that, and I don't test as much as I should, at least as not as much as Ron Jeffries does, in his "Extreme Programming Adventures in C#" book.
However, to me, I don't see the practicality of some of the tests; furthermore, I don't also understand the point about the customers doing the customer tests; most customers aren't accustomed to testing frameworks, as well as the code themselves. After all, that is why they are the customers. (Hopefully, I grasped the concept of this point correctly).
But, I must digress that I have a lot more to learn about testing first, before I go out writing a bunch of code that ends up not working, or is filled with bugs.
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