There's a great set of recorded hangouts between Kent Beck, Martin Fowler, and DHH titled "Is TDD dead?": http://martinfowler.com/articles/is-tdd-dead/
As with that talk, I'd highly encourage you to take the time to watch them. –Sam On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 6:07 PM, Corey Floyd <[email protected]> wrote: > This is from a while back, but I finally got around to watching it. I > think it is a really good questioning of our assumptions around testing > (and of course it is a controversial talk - it is DHH) > > To me, the TL;DR was: > > - The main goal of writing code should be creating maintainable code with > clear intent. > - While unit testing is good, it is not a panacea for planning good > architecture or system testing. > - Good unit testing coverage will not spontaneously birth good > architecture and at times it can even work against code clarity. > - System testing is a better representation of how our code works > - Unit testing should support our goals, and not become a goal in and of > it self. > > I highly encourage everyone to carve out some time to watch. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LfmrkyP81M > > -- > Corey Floyd > Software Engineer > Mobile Apps / iOS > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > >
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