On 16 Sep 2008, at 20:05, David Chelimsky wrote:
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Mark Wilden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Martin Streicher
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
3/ Has any documented how to run the debugger via rspec to help
track down
errors?
We TDD/BDD/Agile practitioners aren't supposed to use a debugger,
Please pay no attention to that sort of bullshit :)
The idea is that TDD, practiced with discipline, should make you
depend less on a debugger. This is a good thing since debugging time
is impossible to estimate. But the idea that you're not supposed to
use a debugger is religious hog-wash.
Indeed - which i counter with: i'm still pre proper tdd enough that
it's _faster_ than writing tests that i know are valid and making my
code bend entirely around it. It's a fine mesh of both, i think. You
are right about it being hard to estimate - but i think that
estimation is as much to do with general experience as it is with the
type of task: a well experienced hacker will know to set aside a
number of hours for a difficult task (spiking) if they're not sure of
the full requirement or the right approach.
-james
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