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boppers

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5. Played in the TDD world yet?

Reply to HopeHoops (Reply #4)

Sun Dec 18, 2011, 04:00 AM

Dec 2011

Very different paradigm, basically every feature, action, inteface, (etc.) has a test written *before* anything is coded. By the time you get to thousands of lines/files/whatever, there's a huge test library written, so a bug in one line of code that breaks an obscure feature (that seems totally unrelated) that's only used once every six months is caught more or less immediately.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_development

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I would like to be a host in this group. Any objections? [View all] HopeHoops Dec 2011 OP

None from me. Can you add testing? nt DocMac Dec 2011 #1

Written tests only - no fill-in-the-oval shit. HopeHoops Dec 2011 #2

lol. I was talking about software testing. DocMac Dec 2011 #3

This would probably be the most appropriate group. HopeHoops Dec 2011 #4

Played in the TDD world yet? boppers Dec 2011 #5

Quite familiar. It does have drawbacks, but those are fading with time. HopeHoops Dec 2011 #6