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Posts by Dean Strelau

  1. Mindful Testing for a 1600% Speedup

    Posted in Tech by Dean Strelau

    04 August, 2009

    Until yesterday, one of our in-development applications was routinely taking over 4 minutes to run its full test suite (without running our Cucumber tests). Four minutes per run can pretty easily turn into an hour per day when testing every commit. I was beginning to think that "testing" is the new "compiling".

    #1 programmer excuse for legitimately slacking off: