ÉnKép - takacsot

Sometimes the tests are excluded from the build scripts, and haven't been run in months. Sometimes the "tests" are run, but a good proportion of them are commented out. Either way our precious tests are afflicted with a nasty cancer that is time-consuming and frustrating to eradicate.

We ask what happened and are told things like "we made a change and some tests broke, so we removed the tests". You can look at this as our failing - we haven't managed to fully teach the client teams about the value of the tests. We need to do more to pass on that failing tests need to be investigated, not simply ignored. But whatever anyone says, we've discovered that cancer of the tests is a common disease. 

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TestCancer.html