Re:I have complicated feelings about TDD
by grepLeigh on Thursday August 18, 2022 @01:12PM
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> Unfortunately most software is just not well defined up front.
This is true, and I think that's why TDD is a valuable exercise to disambiguate requirements.
You don't need to take an all/nothing approach. Even if you clarify 15-20% of the requirements enough to write tests before code, that's a great place to begin iterating on the murky 80%.
This is true, and I think that's why TDD is a valuable exercise to disambiguate requirements.
You don't need to take an all/nothing approach. Even if you clarify 15-20% of the requirements enough to write tests before code, that's a great place to begin iterating on the murky 80%.