[TIP] testing: why bother?

[Kumar McMillan]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Michael Foord
<michael at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
>> I have tried TDD but it feels more natural for me to commence most
>> *new* projects or *hard* problems with a prototyping phase where I
>> hack code without any tests just to get it to work.  Afterwards, I
>> usually throw away a lot of that code and rewrite/restructure using a
>> TDD approach.  For small changes, bug fixes, or easy problems I always
>> use TDD.  The prototyping phase is risky but it's faster, easier, and
>> less wasteful (for example, you don't have irrelevant tests laying
>> around).
>>
> That process is incorporated within classic TDD and is called "spiking"
> (experimental or exploratory changes where testing is inappropriate because
> you don't know *what* to test).

Sweet.  I knew I was smart.

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> Michael
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>> Kumar
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