[crpatino]

> Play around with the program intelignetly and observe no bugs

That's the most sophomore thing I have read in a long time!!!

Probably works OK if you are working alone in a simple product whose whole code mostly fits inside a single brain. Try doing that as part of a team of dozens that make daily changes to a code base of millions of lines and you will very soon earn the title of the most infamous person in the office.

[ambrop7]

BTW, can you elaborate on the meaning of "sophomore"? I can't find in a dictionary anything other than "second in a series" which doesn't seem to make sense in your use.

[joevandyk]

Probably means http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sophomoric

[Macha]

Sophomore is the name of the second year in American high schools, so he's basically calling it an comment someone inexperienced would make

[ambrop7]

Right. In large projects some kind of automated tests are indeed useful. But they should not be a substitute for writing working code in the first place, just as an extra level of quality assurance.

[lisivka]

Just compare web design before ACID and after ACID. All browsers had working code, but web design was nightmare.