The Effectiveness of Test Driven Development (With Case Studies)

Re:The Effectiveness of Test Driven Development (With Case S... by newt on Friday December 03, 2010 @08:34AM (#1965713)

I'm not sure how TDD makes this worse. Unless you think that it absolves you of any end-to-end QA testing. In which case, welcome to the fire.

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Re:The Effectiveness of Test Driven Development (With Case S... by JoeAltmaier on Friday December 03, 2010 @10:05AM (#1966063)

I object to the TDD fundamental precept that you code to the tests. That narrows the 'testing' until its a self-fulfilling prophecy that you will have 'fewer bugs', since you defined the bugs as 'what we're looking for'.

Reminds me of the old joke "A: I'm looking for my wallet. B: where did you lose it? A: over there. B: then why look here? A: the light's better"

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Re:The Effectiveness of Test Driven Development (With Case S... by newt on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @05:23AM (#1982436)

You're repeating your false idea that bugs in TDD come only from the unit tests. Eh, see comments above.

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