Throwback Thursday: July 9, 2026

In honor of the built-in lightweight testing framework in VCS Add-in's recent v5 release, we revisit testing in this week's edition of Throwback Thursday.

Throwback Thursday: July 9, 2026

With over a million words scattered across more than 1,800 articles on this blog, you've probably missed a few things here.

That’s why each week in "Throwback Thursday," we’ll revisit some standout posts. Expect a blend of my personal favorites, insightful articles from other great minds, and a touch of coding humor to keep things light.


Highlights from NoLongerSet.com

Python-inspired Doc Tests in VBA
Doc tests are not a replacement for unit or integration testing. But they do provide the best return on investment (ROI) of any type of test, mostly because the effort to write them is near zero.
VBA Doc Tests: Advanced Features
Let’s take our doc tests to the next level. I’ll show you how to use my custom DocTests function to test classes, private functions, and error conditions.

Wisdom from Around the Web

Unit Testing
Every programmer needs a rubberduck. COM add-in for the VBA & VB6 IDE (VBE). - rubberduck-vba/Rubberduck
Testing
Synchronize your Access Forms, Macros, Modules, Queries, Reports, and more with a version control system. - joyfullservice/msaccess-vcs-addin

Developer Humor

Software Testing Day

The company tried to document how often employees were celebrating Software Testing Day, but their recordkeeping system kept mysteriously crashing.

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All original code samples by Mike Wolfe are licensed under CC BY 4.0