in reply to Agile programming a skill?

Holy Grail?

I think that a more wide-spread acceptance of the usefulness of unit testing is the most important trend in software development in the last decade.

This is because it pinpoints one of the biggest problems we have; change is expensive and so is poor quality.

I know unit tests isn't "agile" per se, but it's at the core of most agile methods.

/J

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Re^2: Agile programming a skill?
by thor (Priest) on Jan 26, 2005 at 00:55 UTC
    Holy Grail?
    Exactly my point. I find that people are either indifferent towards it or are zealots expounding on the virtues that agile has to offer. I hate zealots of any kind. To pre-pick a solution without knowing anything about a given problem is ridiculous. Granted, there are lots of tools that are well suited towards lots of jobs, but there is no one tool (or methodology) that solves all problems.

    thor

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