Hi, For me adding tests works especially well when building something. It helps to get the idea of what you want to achieve right.
Thijs (Oh and yes I am a TDD fan :-) On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:54, Tim Molendijk <t...@timmolendijk.nl> wrote: >> And of course, as a professional developer, you have reasonable tests >> in place already so that you can verify the bug in a new test once >> you've found it. And experimenting in your tests can also help you a >> lot. >> >> If you don't have tests, all the debugging tools you can find won't >> avail you much. > > I'm not much of a fan of TDD (test driven development). I do believe that > tests can be very useful and sometimes indispensable, but mainly for > protecting rather stable library-like software components from regressions. > Writing tests before or while building something; no thanks, it will waste > too much time on creating tests for code that might morph or disappear any > moment. > > _______________________________________________ > Python-nl mailing list > Python-nl@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-nl > > -- Thijs Janssen +31 6 2500 6316 >Seek You Too< twitter: @thijsj _______________________________________________ Python-nl mailing list Python-nl@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-nl
