Reasons to Avoid Test Driven Development

Re:Reasons to Avoid Test Driven Development by vegas on Thursday December 06, 2012 @02:31PM (#4883373)

He left out "You are Donald Knuth"

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Re:Reasons to Avoid Test Driven Development by mpweiher on Thursday December 06, 2012 @03:10PM (#4883556)

Donald "beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it" Knuth?

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Re:Reasons to Avoid Test Driven Development by readme on Thursday December 06, 2012 @02:53PM (#4883495)

I'd be kind of surprised if Knuth didn't write tests. I'd expect him to formally prove every single line of his code.

In any event, I find that using literate programming results in less buggy and more comprehensive code.

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