Roy Osherove > Quotes

“If you are too lazy to cleanup your database after testing, your filesystem after testing or your memory based system consider moving to a different profession. This isn't a job for you.”
― Roy Osherove, The Art of Unit Testing: With Examples in .NET

“Tests are stories we tell the next generation of programmers on a project.”
― Roy Osherove, The Art of Unit Testing: With Examples in .NET

“Can you send your team to a unit-testing course for a few days? When they come back, how much extra time do you provide for your team to apply what they’ve learned in a slower pace of development? Twenty percent more? Not even close.”
― Roy Osherove, Notes to a Software Team Leader: Growing Self Organizing Teams

“If your team is constantly chasing its own tail and putting out fires instead of having time to sit down and experiment, learn new things, and apply them in a manner that makes them stick, you don’t have enough time to learn.”
― Roy Osherove, Notes to a Software Team Leader: Growing Self Organizing Teams