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Re^2: Testing IS Development

by doom (Deacon)
on Mar 10, 2009 at 22:36 UTC ( [id://749755]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Testing IS Development
in thread Testing IS Development

Yes, that's a really good Ovid article. I was about to say something similar here myself... I'm certainly sold on the value of test-driven development, but while a large body of working tests makes it much easier to make small improvements to the code, it does have the draw-back of acting as a kind of institutional weight on the design, making big changes much harder in many cases.

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Re^3: Testing IS Development
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Mar 11, 2009 at 05:38 UTC
    ... while a large body of working tests makes it much easier to make small improvements to the code, it does have the draw-back of acting as a kind of institutional weight on the design, making big changes much harder in many cases.

    I expect the same is true from a large body of working code -- the kind I expect to see accompanying a large body of working tests.

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