Rodgers N. Hart, F. Sinatra, and E. Fitzgerald, Lorenz Institute for the Advancement of Clinical Psychology

Note: This paper has also been accepted for publication in the Annals of reformat_songs.

Introduction

Inferior social proclivity disorder, or “trampiness”, is commonly mistaken for adjustment disorder not otherwise specified. However, this condition is surprisingly common in early post-adolescent patients, especially females. We examine the diagnosis and treatment of one patient, who we shall refer to as Lady. Lady, when she began treatment, was a 24-year-old who referred herself to our private practice. She had become increasingly concerned over her difficulty in forming social relationships at her place of employment, a finishing school.

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Notes for a lecture given to Brandeis University’s COSI 22a.

What Is Unit Testing, and Why Should I Care?

Unit testing is the process of writing tests for individual bits of your program, in isolation. A “bit” is a small piece of functionality. We’ll discuss how small later. How can you know whether or not your program works if you don’t test it? If you’ve ever lost points on a programming assignment because something didn’t work right, you could’ve saved yourself from that by testing your program.

If you go on to take COSI 31a, you will do better on the programming assignments if you write tests! More importantly, it’s a good habit to get into as a programmer. Having tests for your code turns programming from an art — “gee, it looks right and seems to work, I think I’m done” — to a science —; “this is the evidence I have to support the claim that my program is behaving correctly.”

Unit testing is one of the easier ways to get into all the nooks and crannies of your code and make sure it’s doing the right thing. The act of writing tests often helps reveal areas where it isn’t clear what it means to do “the right thing.”

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