{"id":304,"date":"2008-09-08T20:03:30","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T08:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/?p=304"},"modified":"2008-09-08T20:03:30","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T08:03:30","slug":"another-week-yet-another-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/304\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Week, (Yet) Another Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minutes]<\/span><\/span>

Last weeks poll<\/a> was interesting – I was surprised to see such a high proportion of those polled indicating that they don’t do unit testing – slightly more than 50% in fact.\u00a0 It wasn’t a huge sample size, but even so it surprised me.<\/p>\n

So that got me thinking about the use to which visitors to my blog are actually putting Delphi – unit testing isn’t relevant to everyone of course – and so I thought it might be useful to ask that question this week.<\/p>\n

This is another multi-response poll.\u00a0 You may choose all<\/span> the answers that apply to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minutes]<\/span><\/span> Last weeks poll was interesting – I was surprised to see such a high proportion of those polled indicating that they don’t do unit testing – slightly more than 50% in fact.\u00a0 It wasn’t a huge sample size, but even so it surprised me. 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