Unfortunately, from time to time I'm told by my boss to write glue code for devices that we haven't received yet and that are poorly documented. I wouldn't mind writing code like this if I was writing some kind of integration test at the same time, but I don't write such a test. Therefore, the only feedback I get that my code works is the compilation status - and that's the problem, it's very hard for me to motivate myself to write such code.

Do you know any interesting articles on this subject, so that I can use them to persuade my boss of this type of work? Or maybe you have a different opinion and you don't mind writing code this way? The last question is: what English idiom to use to describe this type of work? I'm not a native English speaker and I don't know how to look for inspirational articles on this topic.