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Ask HN: In the mobile app world, is field testing > unit testing?

1 pointsby sdiwakarover 12 years ago
I have a general software dev question, since I'm new to mobile development.<p>Overall, it seems that with any mobile app, you have to dedicate a significant portion of time to conducting extensive field testing of your app on a variety of devices.<p>On top of that, if you follow TDD, you need to write unit tests for as much of your app as possible.<p>But as an indie developer, lots of field testing is really costly, but so is writing test cases for everything.<p>So my question to fellow hackers is:<p>Is it appropriate to trade off unit testing, in favour of more field testing? OR is it better to have a balance?<p>Thoughts?

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