Software Testing for Sysadmin Programs

Testing is a common practice in modern software development, but the mere mention of it tends to raise hackles in the sysadmin community. To me, this is disappointing because testing produces better code and makes it easier to safely implement changes in your code. Too many articles about testing just argue its merits or excoriate people who don’t use it, so instead I’m going to show you how easy it is to start testing your code and introduce you to a simple testing framework that is suitable for use with the kinds of programs sysadmins tend to write...