John and I were talking yesterday about creating a persona to express some of our thoughts on unit testing.

As such, Jeff Testworthy was born:

• If you find more bugs in the process of verifying your emergency bug release...you might need more automated testing.

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• If it takes you more than two minutes to identify a bug as a "known bug"...you need pay down your tech debt.

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• If you have "known bugs"...fix them.

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• If need to run a bunch of manual regression tests in order to close out work...you might need automated testing.

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• If your test is dependent on someone else's test working right to pass...you might be doing it wrong.

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