{"id":40,"date":"2010-11-23T17:15:10","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T15:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asymaps.wordpress.com\/?p=40"},"modified":"2010-11-23T17:15:10","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T15:15:10","slug":"code-is-poetry-but-what-about-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asym.dk\/index.php\/2010\/11\/23\/code-is-poetry-but-what-about-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Code is Poetry &#8211; But What About Testing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress used to have a tagline saying &#8220;code is poetry&#8221;, apparantly Microsft has used it too. I don&#8217;t know who came up with it first, but I agree. I wrote my first piece of BASIC code almost 30 years ago, my first machine code program more than 25 years ago, and learned C also about 25 years ago. Code can be as meaningful and meaningless as poetry, so the analogy is correct. To me at least.<br \/>\nNow, many years later, I&#8217;m a professional tester. I find problems with other peoples business processes, architecture, software designs, and implementations. I don&#8217;t write code any more (except when I&#8217;m using it to test something).<br \/>\nBut where&#8217;s the poetry? Is testing essentially a non-poetic activity?<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t think so. Yet, it doesn&#8217;t make sense to say &#8220;tests are poetry&#8221;. They aren&#8217;t. Then, what are they?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/asymaps.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/mandelbrot2small.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-65\" title=\"Art of testing?\" src=\"http:\/\/asymaps.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/mandelbrot2small.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.asym.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/mandelbrot2small.png 500w, https:\/\/www.asym.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/mandelbrot2small-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.asym.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/mandelbrot2small-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress used to have a tagline saying &#8220;code is poetry&#8221;, apparantly Microsft has used it too. I don&#8217;t know who came up with it first, but I agree. I wrote my first piece of BASIC code almost 30 years ago, my first machine code program more than 25 years ago, and learned C also about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[26,58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asym.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asym.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asym.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asym.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asym.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asym.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asym.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asym.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asym.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}