A son's view of testing

Let me introduce my son. Timothy is a developer who has been working with ColdFusion for years now. We created the COOP library together. He did by far most of the coding as part of his apprenticeship training. While we were coding, it occurred to me that we were having some issues that could be solved by creating unit tests. Fathers are prone to push children into things they are only going to do because they want to get along with their parents. Well, he took to testing to his surprise, and to my surprise.

We both started with CFCUnit and CFUnit. They were the ground breakers and deserve high praise for introducing the community to this concept. There have been other fine works also. When we found MXUnit, we found what we were looking for in a unit testing solution. We needed something that would work with COOP and do our regression testing. Though I had more experience with software and object design, my son's work inspired me to do more unit test integration. They...