Comments on: TDD Accelerates Development

By: sicily villa

sicily villa — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:12:59 +0000

practicing Test-Driven Development trades development has many advantages in the long term.using Cucumber approach to write acceptance criteria for apps has all but eliminated this last vestige of Blank Slate Syndrome.In cucumber start at the beginning and start turning each step into runnable code.

By: ywam

ywam — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:00:23 +0000

TDD – Interesting to read one , keep up the good work posting : )

By: avdi

avdi — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:12:33 +0000

Thanks, Kevin! I'm liking the Cucumber approach more and more lately – I recently used it to spec a command-line executable by having the Cucumber specs actually start the executable as a separate process and validate the output.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:54:47 +0000

Good Article!
I like the last part about starting with the acceptance test (in Cucumber) and maybe *that* can be your failing test until it proves that you go past a certain threshold and need to drop down to unit tests.
Maybe that approach will lead to code that is well-tested in a black-box manner as much as possible.

By: avdi

avdi — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:40:26 +0000

These days we call that sort of thing Big Design Up Front, and yes, it's very old-skool

By: greymaiden

greymaiden — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:36:08 +0000

Am I too oldschool if I say I conquer blank slate syndrome by making a flowchart before I start programming anything?

I gotta admit, I never bother writing tests, but I've never worked on any large app so it probably doesn't matter.

By: bryanl

bryanl — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:58:21 +0000

not quite. maybe to plaid. but there is an increase.

By: avdi

avdi — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:15:30 +0000

Would you say that testing all the fuckin' time accelerates your development to ludicrous speed?

By: bryanl

bryanl — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:10:25 +0000

here here!