[TIP] testing: why bother?

C. Titus Brown ctb at msu.edu
Wed Mar 23 09:09:34 PDT 2011


On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 03:16:38PM +0000, Michael Foord wrote:
> TDD isn't really that hard. It does require, impose, a change in  
> thinking (which is why Titus is so suspicious) but the actual process is  
> simple enough.

It's true, I do hate change...

Seriously, I just don't have a reason to switch away from my current
approach, which I would characterize as half-TDD, half-stupidityDD,
and half hacking.  TDD just doesn't fit my brain.

> The "Advantages" section of Jonathan Hartley's excellent presentation on  
> TDD provide some good pithy reasons to test (particularly but not solely  
> reasons to do TDD):

+1

--titus
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C. Titus Brown, ctb at msu.edu



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