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Re:An External Replication on the Effects of Test-driven Dev... by blazespin on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @02:54AM (#12741648)
Absolutely, this. TDD is hugely valuable especially when new people join the project who don't understand and the best way they contribute is by adding tests!
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Re:An External Replication on the Effects of Test-driven Dev... by 5gtgd5t5e on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @03:44AM (#12741867)
This is really wrong!

Tests are important, you should not have "the new guy" write them, because they should already have been written, by someone who understood the code being tested. Having some junior dealing with testing is a sure way of producing useless, slow and incorrect tests.

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Re:An External Replication on the Effects of Test-driven Dev... by croon on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @04:49AM (#12742172)
That sounds like TLD, the opposite of TDD.
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