And Test Automation Saved the Day!
Well, not. Actually I was the guy working like crazy from 9 to 15, but all this hard work was possible just because we had a nice set of 122 automated tests, and I can’t miss this opportunity to say: I told you!
The pre-production machines were supposed to be ready last Thursday to start the integration of our shiny SOAP web service into our partner SaaS platform (woah, look at me! I’m using modern buzzwords), but the machine wasn’t operational until Friday.
After that, our partner started today the integration, one week after we have planned to. So, let’s say we had the need to make things right today (no matter who gets hurt).
Besides that, isn’t easy working with Australian technicians because the time difference with Spain (+8 hours).
Fortunately today was my best programming day in some time and we had automated tests to do the quality control of the different changes we had to introduce in our web service. Without that stuff, which very often is treated as useless waste of time, we wouldn’t have been able to validate those last minute changes and the project would be either delayed or buggy (or both!).
To sum up: people out there, program your tests because they’re worth your time!
