Re: [extremeprogramming] The principle behind How Test-Driven Development Works

On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 3:30 PM Agust?n Villena <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Ok!
>
> Please send a mail when it will be updated
>

I did some more reading. I think we're both right, although I could write
more clearly.

The notion of dependent events, statistical fluctuations, and the value in
reordering the events to increase throughput _seems_ to be a concept in
queuing theory, so the way I present it is apparently not _wrong_, but I
could probably improve the presentation. That entire article is due to be
rewritten for conciseness, so I will consider when to do that, and when I
do, I'll make sure to refer explicitly to the Herbie story in _The Goal_.

I don't know when I'll do that.
-- 
J. B. (Joe) Rainsberger :: https://tdd.training :: http://www.jbrains.ca ::
http://www.thecodewhisperer.com

On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 11:22 AM J. B. Rainsberger <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi, Agustín. Yes, I need to edit that article to fix the reference. I
>> have been waiting for years to remember where I had learned that concept,
>> so I thank you a lot for making it very clear. :)
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 12:43 PM Agust?n Villena <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> I'm a big fan of Joe's article
>>> https://blog.jbrains.ca/permalink/how-test-driven-development-works-and-more
>>>
>>> I wanted to check what was "queue theory" principle behind TDD that
>>> Joe's referred,
>>>
>>> "Given a process B, which follows a process A, sometimes in performing B
>>> we need to perform some of A again. We can remove the need to rework by
>>> taking some portion of process B and performing it before process A"
>>>
>>> but it seems that this principle comes from another source, Theory of
>>> Constraints, explained in the famous part of the goal of the boy scout
>>> expedition where Herbie, the slowest kid, should be out at the front of the
>>> group to improve overall speed.
>>>
>>> https://www.mmsonline.com/columns/where-is-your-herbie
>>>
>>> Am I ok?
>>>
>>> Saludos from Chile
>>> Agustin Villena
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> J. B. (Joe) Rainsberger :: https://tdd.training :: http://www.jbrains.ca
>> :: http://www.thecodewhisperer.com
>>
>> 
>
>

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