Extreme Programming

• Exteme programming is a sound software development methodology.
• One of the things it emphasises is the test suite.
• Each batch of code comes with a set of tests.
• You need to run these tests often.
• If a bug is found, it needs to be incoporated into the tests.
• At Microsoft we had developers and testers (roughly 1-1).
• Extreme programming advocates that developers develop more tests, but it is not antithetical to the idea of dedicated testers.
• Extreme programming is a lot more than just tests, but tests are a key component to this methodology.
• Tests are key to any reasonable methodology for large program development.