Never Test Before 4

Kind of a silly thought, I know, but it keeps coming back.

I work in a small agile development environment. Development works according to 2-week cycles to complete chunks of code. I keep noticing that anything prior to Cycle 4 or 5 is usually incomplete and unstable for testing. The first several cycles are when all the foundational architectural changes are usually happening.

So we can never really test before (cycle) 4. That's fine. I've got these Ruby scripts to keep me busy in the meanwhile. =)