End-to-End Test Driven Development in Grails – Part 1 | Cantina

End-to-End Test Driven Development in Grails – Part 1 « Cantina

Testing, and specifically test-driven development is a methodology which few developers fully embrace. Automated testing is inevitably viewed as something that can be done last minute once an application is completed, or it’s considered too time consuming to be done at all. What most people don’t realize though, is that over the lifetime of an application, and even during early development, testing saves countless hours. It allows developers to find errors early and reduces the amount of time spent debugging. It results in cleaner, simpler, and more understandable designs, and most importantly gives developers a much higher level of confidence in the final product.