In a message of Wed, 17 Jun 2015 14:33:43 -0700, sohcahto...@gmail.com writes:
>I had a Java class where we had to learn TDD, and that's the way TDD >was taught to us, and I hated it. We watched a video of this guy >explaining TDD with a hat that was red on the front and green on the >back. It involved writing a simple failing unit test, then write >code to fix it, then refactor the tests and/or code. As an in-class >exercise, we had to write an implementation of Conway's Game of Life. >I threw TDD out the window and just wrote the damn program in under >15 minutes, then another 10 minutes to write unit tests that tested >every possible code branch and several invalid inputs. Meanwhile, >the people doing TDD the "right" way didn't even have a complete >program after over an hour. The brand of TTD we were taught would >end up multiplying development time by at least a factor of 3, and by >the time you were done, at least 75% of the tests you had written >will have been removed due to rampant refactoring. IMO, that kind of >TTD is an utter waste of time. I'd hate that too. But that's not the TDD I know, or teach. Please don't write off TDD as a result of this experience. Laura -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
