Who Tests The Tests?

Posted by: youve been HAACKED, on 13 Mar 2007 | View original | Bookmarked: 0 time(s)

Leon Bambrick (aka SecretGeek) has started a series on Agile methodologies and Test Driven Development (TDD) in which he brings up his own various hidden objections to TDD in order to see if his prejudices can be overcome. One of the questions he asks is an age old argument against TDD. Who Tests the Tests? Leon sees potential for a stack overflow since, given that the tests are code, and that according to TDD, code should be tested, shouldnt there be tests for the tests? The short answer is that...

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