... As we seem to have nothing much organised for the meeting tomorrow night (sorry about that folks), I'm going to cancel it. ... I've been scouting around...
Hi, (I'm conscious this is commercial, so I ran this post by the list owner before posting - if you think the content is inappropriate, please take it up with...
All, Please can you help me find information on how to make money from putting a product in open source and case studies of who has done this successfully? We...
... Eric S. Raymond's "The Cathedral & the Bazaar" is a famous essay. The book has much more then just the essay. In "The Magic Cauldron" he mentions the model...
What you always suspected but never dared to say ... http://scruffylookingcatherder.com/archive/2008/01/22/tdd-proven-effective-or-is-it.aspx Cheers ...
... That ain't me, babe ... http://scruffylookingcatherder.com/archive/2008/01/22/tdd-proven-effective-or-is-it.aspx From that place: "Intemperate rantings...
Hi all, Reinforcing what Ben has said below. Talking about TDD as a "testing" mechanism is missing the point. The primary focus of TDD is a design activity....
Maybe this should be the topic of the next MXPEG meeting ? ... _________________________________________________________________ New music from the Rogue...
... And/or "what makes a good test" - I know I've sometimes been guilty of writing pretty facile tests just so I can say "yes, there's a test for that". Steve...
Throwing my 2c in the ring here. (sic.) For me writing tests is a specification activity. I am stating the desired behaviour of your class one example at a...
I agree. The fact that you get a fully automated regression suite is a by product - not the primary goal. To make that test suite great it generally needs to...
I think the author's responses add vital context to the original post. For instance this paragraph: "The discussion under "Lies, Damn Lies, and..." give the...
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Well ... it's about the abstract, not the essence, is it. I was hoping people on this list would rush to provide me with research results proving the opposite....
Hi all, ... Another key argument for TDD is that you only write code when you have a failing test, the argument being that it prevents the programmer from ...
And I'll add my 2c worth too :-) The study to me was artificial. It was a setup in a university environment. It doesn't factor in the realities of writing...
Hi All, ... My biggest concern with this sort of statement is the thought that anything can be tested in a unit test. I often find that the points of the code...
I agree with Dmitri. I believe test-first integration testing is the way to go, and it's how I try to do things. I don't do unit tests at all, because the...
... how I ... integration ... work ... up in the ... never want ... The "test-first integration testing" isn't what I've done [1], but it is interesting to me....
Here is a summary of what I do: 1) Take a piece of required functionality that might take a day to a week to implement. Not something that one class...
Here is a post about a post on some 'other' benefits of using a TDD approach. QUOTE "Kieth Braithwaite has made an interesting observation here. The basic idea...
