Code correctness, and testing strategies

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.1539.1211660262.12834.python-list at python.org>,
David  <wizzardx at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Seriously, 10 hours of testing for code developed in 10 hours? What
>kind of environment do you write code for? This may be practical for
>large companies with hordes of full-time testing & QA staff, but not
>for small companies with just a handful of developers (and where you
>need to borrow somone from their regular job to do non-developer
>testing). In a small company, programmers do the lions share of
>testing. For programmers to spend 2 weeks on a project, and then
>another 2 weeks testing it is not very practical when they have more
>than one project.

You must have poor project management/tracking.  You WILL pay the cost
of testing, the only question is when.  The when does have an impact on
other aspects of the development process.

Speaking as someone who started in my current job four years ago as the
third developer in a five-person company, I believe that your claim about
the differences between small companies and large companies is specious.
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