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                      JOURNAL FOR FRIDAY 25TH MAY, 2012
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SUBJECT: Formal testing or lack of
   DATE: Fri May 25 22:49:10 BST 2012

Ironed out a few more bugs this evening which is good. Maybe I can get back to
documenting and cleaning up the code. It's amazing how messy code can get when
you keep adding a lot of debugging cruft around everything. Some of the
debugging will stay there but be turned in logging for the server.

I've still got many test cases to write as well. Which is daft when you think
about it as the test cases should come first - maybe they would have helped
with all of the recent issues! *sigh*

Trouble is I've never been in a situation where there has been formal testing
and I tend to write code off of the top of my head - debugging and testing
everything as I go along. I know how to do formal testing. I know I should do
formal testing. I've even got my own copy of the classic "The Art of Software
Testing" by Glenford J. Myers - the older hardback edition with the orange
dust jacket. Expensive when I got it year ago and paid around £70-80 for 192
pages but well worth it.

One of these days I'd like to be able to afford/indulge myself in my own set
of "The art of computer programming" by Donald E. Knuth. At the moment a set
containing volumes 1-4a is about £180 :(

Although I do have a copy of Algorithms in a Nutshell published by O'Reilly.

Trouble with being self taught is that I read stuff and go "Oh that's what
they call it - been doing that for ages" :)

--
Diddymus



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