How Can I Make Testing Software More Stimulating?

An anonymous reader writes "I like writing software. In fact, I revel in it. However, one thing has always kept me back from being able to write the best software I possibly can: testing. I consider testing to be the absolute bane of my existence. It is so boring and un-stimulating that I usually skip it entirely, pass the testing off to someone else, or even worse, if I absolutely have to test, I do a very poor job at it. I know I'm not that lazy, as I can spend hours on end writing software, but there's something about testing that makes my mind constantly want to wander off and think about something else. Does anyone have any tips on how I can make non-automated testing a little bit more stimulating so I can at least begin to form a habit of doing so?"pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fask.slashdot.org%2Fstory %2F10%2F08%2F17%2F008237%2FHow-Can-I-Make-Testing-Software-More-Stimulating" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=How+Can+I+Make+Testing+Software+More+S timulating%3F%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fbz0z9K" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/10/08/17/008237/How-Can-I-Make-Testing-Software-More-Stimulating?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./ppa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/tX95R-KU_xVcXcWhibsqGL97rmI/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/tX95R-KU_xVcXcWhibsqGL97rmI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/tX95R-KU_xVcXcWhibsqGL97rmI/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/tX95R-KU_xVcXcWhibsqGL97rmI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/VDXPO-46CAs" height="1" width="1"/

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