Oh boy, I would give your comment an infinite number of up-votes. Yes, testing has reached fetish-like levels.
Some of the test code I've encountered recently has been more voluminous, complex and has taken more man hours to develop and maintain than the application or library it's assigned to.
For the love of God, develop the damned software! It's either going to work or it's not.
Yeah, yeah. Just venting. The products I work on aren't the most important, but they certainly are quite important and most of the testing infrastructure that has been built thus far has a lot of goofy sh@t in it.
I just don't have a high tolerance for needless complexity and gee-whiz-look-what-I-can-do while the clock is running.
Some of the test code I've encountered recently has been more voluminous, complex and has taken more man hours to develop and maintain than the application or library it's assigned to.
For the love of God, develop the damned software! It's either going to work or it's not.