--- Ron Jeffries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> I'm engaged in a discussion with David J Anderson,
> who found an article
> saying that a significant problem with test-driven
> development is that
> teams tend to fall into the trap of writing too many
> tests and not focusing
> enough on progress.
> 
> I've never seen that happen for any extended period.
> 
> How about folks here ... have you encountered such a
> thing? Tell us about
> it, please?
> 

I cannot understand how a team would end up spending
time soley writing tests, as in just producing tests
and nothing else??

What I have found is (and I am a team of one in this
case) is that I can spend too much time thinking about
and trying different ways of writing a test at the
cost of not producing the feature required.  

For me a GUI is still something that I do not see how
to produce via TDD.

But I would probably put this down to lack of
experience.  Or maybe if I had a pair they would have
moved me along :-)

I found the XP Adventures in C# book provided good
discussion on finding a balance between
testing/refactoring/delivering features.

Cheers
Shane


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Shane Mingins

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