Hampton Hates Automated Testing on Vimeo

×Video encoding is running slowly right now. You can keep uploading, but it may be awhile before it converts. We apologize for the inconvenience!

More

See all Show me

2. Lessons from Wikimedia Mobile and Scaling

by Hampton Catlin

4 months ago

1. Hampton Hates Automated Testing

by Hampton Catlin

1 year ago

This is a rant I did about how much I hate testing in the Ruby/Rails community and why I think its a *bad* thing.

Credits

3 Likes

Tags

Carsten Nielsen 1 year ago

Hehehe, man, you're high. Bad code is bad code.
Hampton Catlin 1 year ago

The point is that you are more likely to produce bad *actual* code when you feel you are relying on tests.
David Sidlinger 1 year ago

It's not in the Ruby/Rails stack, but your points are why I'm interested in things like Pex.
Paul Bonser 8 months ago

It sounds to me like you don't know anyone who does testing *correctly*.
Johns Beharry 6 months ago

haha dude you're awesome loved listening to you ramble quite funny and great points

This conversation is missing your voice. Take five seconds to join Vimeo or log in.

Advertisement

Statistics

plays

likes

comments
Total

1,026

3

5
Nov 11^th

0

0

0
Nov 10^th

1

0

0
Nov 9^th

0

0

0
Nov 8^th

0

0

0
Nov 7^th

1

0

0
Nov 6^th

0

0

0
Nov 5^th

0

0

0
Nov 4^th

0

0

0

Previous Week

Downloads

Please join Vimeo or log in to download the original file. It only takes a few seconds.

Vimeo: About / Blog / Developers / Jobs / Community Guidelines / Community Forums / Help Center / Site Map / Merchandise / Get Vimeo
Legal: TM + ©2009 Vimeo, LLC. All rights reserved. / Terms of Service / Privacy Statement /