Rachel’s Comments (group member since Apr 28, 2010)

Rachel’s comments from the Software Engineering group.

I like this chapter, but I would rather see the author walk through creation of tests for code with unknown bugs. Concentrating tests for areas with known bugs isn't beautiful, but recognizing areas of risk in untested code and testing those areas thoroughly is beautiful. The first few points about keeping smoke tests speedy and simple are words we all need to hear. I liked the author's point about using little known features in the code. Even though you may save a few characters the true test of beauty is if someone else can see it too.