On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 07:07:40PM -0700, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
People seem to be finally shrugging off the Extreme Programming(TM!) as unsubstantiated BS.
I read the book. It seems like a mixture of absolute nonsense mixed with otherwise common sense (that doesn't seem all that common). Hopefully, people have taken what is useful away from it. Spending a lot of time writing tests has advantages and disadvantages, and how much should be written is going to depend a lot on the problem. I've done development where writing lots of tests was very valuable (a robust filesystem), and other development where mechanized tests are nearly impossible to write (drivers for interactive devices). For the situations where good tests fit, they are very nice to have. It was very nice to be able to do major refactoring on the filesystem and be able to run the test suite and have fairly good confidence of not breaking anything. I'm talking about more significant things than renaming variables and rearranging code. David -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
