Revenant (11/12/2013)
I would say that as testing tools are easier and easier to use, developers are expected to do more unit testing. I am expected to have a test class for each sproc, with number of methods generally depending on the number of parameters.That, however, does not mean that QA will not do their own testing without looking at what I tested and how. (After a while, they do not have to look anyway because they know me and they know how I go about things.)
The problem is that the DBA developer will work with the parameters given in the spec, using the old subset of the DB that they are allowed to use for testing.
They won't know that the end date is optional or what the limiting scopes will be. So then it goes to production and times out or fails. But they didn't do "sufficient testing" because they designed to the specs.
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Jim P.
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