Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | about this site Lessons Learned in Software Testing: A Context Driven Approach (24 Sep 2003) Software testing -- the art and science of finding bugs -- was long a neglected, unpopular backwater of computer science. This changed, suddenly and remarkably, in the late 90's: modern object-oriented languages made test-based development practical, and then Extreme Programming made testing interesting. One of the core ideas of the so-called agile methodologies that have spun off from Extreme Programming is that clear and thorough tests are the best and most sensible specification of what a program ought to do. One can discuss and debate the meaning of a bookshelf of specification documents for hours, but a line of code either compiles and runs, or it does not. Article URL: http://tekka.net/03/?Bug Read 53 more articles from Tekka sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Letter to the Editor about Crisis in the Profession This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy