testing – Andy Palmer https://andypalmer.com Views on software, technology, consulting and business process Fri, 22 May 2009 13:05:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 Do you have enough oil? https://andypalmer.com/2009/03/do-you-have-enough-oil/ https://andypalmer.com/2009/03/do-you-have-enough-oil/#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:58:30 +0000 http://andypalmer.com/?p=58 I was talking to someone who had had a project manager mention in a retrospective that he felt that the testing was slowing down the delivery. They wanted to stop “wasting time” on testing and refactoring.
When I heard this, I said “That’s a bit like going on a car journey and your passenger telling you to ignore the oil pressure light because they don’t want you wasting time topping up the engine oil”

Admittedly, you will get underway faster, but that’s going to be very little comfort when you come to a grinding halt a few miles down the road.

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