On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 05:02:30PM -0400, Russell Gold wrote:
> I think the difference between TDD and DBC is where the assertions are
> located. My recollection may well be faulty, but I have the idea that
> DBC places assertions in the code itself, using them at runtime to
> verify that callers are obeying preconditions, and that methods called
> preserve invariants and obey postconditions.
>
> TDD places assertions in external code, and relies on the need to
> satisfy those assertions to motivate the writing of the production
> code. It does not necessarily worry about preconditions and
> invariants, although it could.
Thanks! That helped a lot
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