"Joel Spolksy is wrong about my work" - Kent Beck

Re:"Joel Spolksy is wrong about my work" - Kent Beck by axod on Wednesday February 04, 2009 @06:12AM (#465585)

I disagree.

If I'm constantly changing my mind about how best to do something, I don't want the massive overhead of having to change unit tests all the time as well.

I'll test as I go, in the code.

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Re:"Joel Spolksy is wrong about my work" - Kent Beck by Retric on Wednesday February 04, 2009 @11:42AM (#465965)

If your testing in the code then your doing unit tests. But probably in a poor fashion.

Unit tests should hook into the application in such a way that you can reorder the GUI and change nothing.

If you are using Unit tests correctly then any change to the code base at worst requires 10% of that effort to change the test cases. If you can think of any meaningful change that is worse then that your something is wrong with how you're testing.

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Re:"Joel Spolksy is wrong about my work" - Kent Beck by gdee on Wednesday February 04, 2009 @11:23AM (#465917)

"If I'm constantly changing my mind about how best to do something" then you're finding /more/ not /best/ ways.

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