Re:TDD is dead. Long live testing.
by tomeric on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @08:12AM
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I've been feeling this way about testing for a while now and I'm glad that DHH wrote about it so I don't have to feel "wrong" or "embarrassed" by it anymore.
I personally have gone a bit further and only write tests after a successful incarnation of a project (that means customers) that I want to keep developing, or if writing and running the test itself costs me less time then F5'ing a page or mucking around in the rails console.
I have noticed that it's much easier to throw away code that I haven't invested a lot of time in and usually the second time I write it (with tests), I have a much clearer idea of how to implement and test something.
I personally have gone a bit further and only write tests after a successful incarnation of a project (that means customers) that I want to keep developing, or if writing and running the test itself costs me less time then F5'ing a page or mucking around in the rails console.
I have noticed that it's much easier to throw away code that I haven't invested a lot of time in and usually the second time I write it (with tests), I have a much clearer idea of how to implement and test something.