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01/12/2005: "The most exciting progress?"

According to Cem Kaner, respected leader in the testing community:

[I]t is imperative to distinguish between unit tests and system tests. Unit tests are almost always automated, and it makes a great deal of sense to create a large pool of change detectors. I think the recent advances in unit testing (Astels, 2003; Rainsberger, 2004) have been the most exciting progress that I've seen in testing in the last 10 years.

Cem cites Dave's Test-Driven Development: A Practical Guide and my JUnit Recipes. It is certainly satisfying to see a couple of Canadian guys making such an impact in the community.

Thanks to Mike Bolton for bringing this to my attention. You can read the entire paper here.