[LRUG] Number of tests over time?

[Mike Kelly]

It's interesting to see these numbers but, in my experience, most forms of
"code stats" don't provide a realistic insight into the value/properties of
a codebase over its lifetime.

Cheers,
M
On 25 Mar 2015 14:21, "Tim Cowlishaw" <tim at timcowlishaw.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I was idly wondering earlier on about how our test suites change over the
> life of a project. New features almost definitely mean more tests, but
> refactoring (in my experience) makes some tests redundant, so it's not
> necessarily a monotonic increase over time. Therefore, just to satisfy my
> own curiosity: (1) How long has your project been in development? (2) How
> many people work on it? (3) How many specs / unit tests do you have, and
> (4) How many integration / acceptance tests or cukes do you have?
>
> I'll go first:
>
> I've been working on this project since the beginning of January as the
> sole developer, and I've currently got 434 specs and 55 cucumber scenarios
> (with 204 steps).
>
> (Obviously this is in no way meant to be a scientific survey. Just idly
> wondering how others work)
>
> Cheers!
>
> Tim
>
>
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