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Re:An External Replication on the Effects of Test-driven Dev... by mempko on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @11:55AM (#12744917)
I would say the cost of TDD only kicks in at scale... unit tests are a real cost that plague a project and make devs ultra conservative.
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Re:An External Replication on the Effects of Test-driven Dev... by kyberias on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @12:05PM (#12745023)
What do you mean ultra conservative? I can see that the opposite is true: when there are no tests, devs are conservative, ie. they are afraid to change anything. Having at least some tests, they have the possibility to change and refactor more safely.
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