Ayende @ Rahien

Unnatural acts on source code

On language and bias

I am having a discussion about TDD & BDD, and one of the participant just wrote this:

There are (at least) two evolutionary forks of TDD - one that remained true to the intension of BDD, and one that got mired in testing.

From this single statement, how much can you guess about the participant's views?

Comments

Mark Seemann
09/04/2007 07:28 AM by
Mark Seemann

Well, for a start, that person belongs to the 'true' camp :)

Extrapolating, I'd also guess that the person doesn't do automated testing, using TDD artifacts (unit tests) as regression tests, supporting refactoring etc.

He or she may well belong to the camp that thinks DI, IoC, etc. is a redundant complexity introduced only to enable unit testing.

How close am I?

Scott Bellware
09/05/2007 04:14 AM by
Scott Bellware

Hey Mark,

Those word's are mine. I wonder if there are any more assumptions kicking around in there that would do with a bit of questioning?

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