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Re:I have complicated feelings about TDD by pjmlp on Thursday August 18, 2022 @06:38PM (#32515663)
I doubt ZFS authors would have succeeded designing it with TDD.
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Re:I have complicated feelings about TDD by no_wizard on Thursday August 18, 2022 @06:53PM (#32515786)
What's inherent about this problem that wouldn't benefit from chunking things into digestible, iterative parts that lend themselves nicely to the TDD approach as I described?
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Re:I have complicated feelings about TDD by pjmlp on Friday August 19, 2022 @02:51AM (#32518161)
Don't write any code without tests doesn't provide a path to data structure design, or device drivers infrastructure.
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Re:I have complicated feelings about TDD by no_wizard on Saturday August 20, 2022 @07:36PM (#32536088)
What about behaviors and expectations? At the end of the day you’re verifying behaviors and expectations of software. I mean when designing a solution you need to think these things through. TDD compliments this just the same
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