Re: Move from Tradition to XP - Jan 17th

"jeffgrigg63132 <[email protected]>" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.programming.extreme-programming.adoption
Message-ID <[email protected]>
--- Sandy <zebziggle@y...> wrote:
> [Developers] had to jump through hoops to get management to
> grant them time to do detailed design documents. Now, they
> fear, they may lose that time. My job is to show them how
> they don't lose the time, but rather, make better use of it. 
> 
> I can certainly see the benefits of introducing TDD into a
> legacy organization, [...]. The effort I face is identifing
> all the loosely coupled components that lend themselves to
> unit-testing (the low-hanging fruit). [...]

You need to be able to make an investment to create something that 
you need that is currently missing.  It turns out that the thing that 
you really need is *NOT* detailed design documents (...which would 
have to be maintained, at great expense, over time).  What you really 
need is automated regression tests (Unit Tests) for the legacy code.

The need is still there.  It was just misunderstood.  ;->
  - jeff


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