Chapter 9: Skipping Testing

Why do development teams skip testing? What reason could you have to not test your software? Well, testing is a boring topic for many and something that some folks would rather put off to the last minute. You will hear people say things such as "I just don't have time." Some people blame the business for not wanting to spend the man-hours on testing software, so they never get around to it, or testing gets kicked down the road to the night of deployment. I believe if the business really understood the cost of bugs and the risk of deploying software with bugs, then it would conclude that time must be made for testing software early and often. If you ever want to get the business to listen, then you must place a dollar value on whatever you are trying to get them to understand, be it unit testing, software testing, or adopting agile processes. Businesses are primarily motivated by making and saving money and a solid software testing strategy...