Enough with the Test Driven Development
I get up in the morning and have a nice big bowl of oat bran. I go to the bathroom for three and a half hours. I have another bowl of oat bran. I go back in the bathroom for six more hours. All I do is eat and shit, I'm gonna live forever! My colon is the strongest muscle in my body right now. I could pass Elvis through my colon right now.
This is what it sounds like to me hearing the ravings of TDD fanatics.
Posted September 11, 2006 3:13 PM
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I think like so many thing thing TDD has it's place, but it is not a panacea.
The agile/extream programming folks seem to fall into the same hole that the TDD peopel are trapped in.
Nate, September 12, 2006 12:43 AM
Maybe if you practiced it you would still be on version 1.2 of CouchDB...No? :)
Bob Balfe, September 12, 2006 6:17 AM
You can pry my unit tests out of my cold, dead fingers.
TDD excites me less. I've been unit testing for about a year and a half now and I just can't seem to do TDD. Every once in a while, when I hit something where the correct API is just brain-dead obvious, I'll write the tests first, but otherwise I just can't seem to help embedding very-sub-optimal API assumptions into my initial tests, which end up with the net value of the TDD being zero-to-negative for me.
I am somewhat unusual in that I've always been intensely aware of the shortcomings of my code, though. I've never understood the optimistic world some developers seem to live in where everything always succeeds and corner cases never occur. I have to concede that TDD might be more helpful if you have a harder time seeing the seams in your code. (And while I don't understand it in my gut, the evidence that a lot of people have that problem is undeniable.)
Jeremy Bowers, September 12, 2006 3:14 PM
Then you should try MDD.
Read all about it at:
http://www.hacknot.info/hacknot/action/showEntry?eid=84
Slawek, September 24, 2006 10:58 PM
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