Test Expressivity

Present: Emil, Jason, Andy, Rob, Monica

• How should you organize your test suites?
  • During development?
  • Different from when they are considered regression tests?
  • Should they be weeded out

• end to end tests
  • Should you even have them?
  • How many?
  • The test pyramid (http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TestPyramid.html)

• Having requirements docs and test case docs
  • Very common, yet it's problematic; especially if they're at the same level of detail/abstraction

• Challenges with dispersed teams

• Clarifying tests with comments is not expressive? not expressive enough?

• You should be able to show your business people your test code...
  • And they should be able to understand them