Interesting.

Roy Osherove-blog mentions these three fundamental properties:

maintainable, trustworthy, readable

I've been fiddling quite a lot with "readability" lately, since I
stumbled upon the BDD community.


2008/10/2 kentb <kentb@...>:
> Olaf,
>
> I've been thinking about this issue lately as well. Tests should be (in
> rough priority order):
> 1) isolated (unaffected by the presence, absence, or results of other
> tests)
> 2) automated
> 3) quick to write
> 4) quick to run
> 5) unique (providing confidence not provided by other tests/uncorrelated
> with other tests)
>
> Writing such tests requires my best design skills--i.e. it is not a testing
> problem, it is a design problem. Understanding those design skills is why
> I've embarked on my study of software design (see my InfoQ London talk or
> www.threeriversinstitute.org/EffectiveDesign.pps for a 20 minute narrated
> PowerPoint of my results to date).
>
> Regards,
>
> Kent Beck
> Three Rivers Institute
>
>