Maintaining your test code

Like application code, test code is code, so handle it as application code should be handled, for example:

• It needs to be secured, ideally by means of a source code management tool
• It needs to be maintained and as any new customer wish will result in a change of the application code, it will most likely also change the test code
• It needs to be debugged, whether you like it or not, as any coding done by a developer potentially inserts new bugs
• It needs to be reviewed to assure that, like application code, it meets the coding standards

Extensions and tests

Before we conclude this chapter, a note must be made on how to organize your extension code with respect to application and test code.

If we take...