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

"Steve Gordon" <[email protected]> Wed, 20 Nov 2019 09:34:11 -0700
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Not much different from how Prolog would work if the cut statement was not
necessary to make it efficient enough to be practical.

On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 9:12 AM Avi Kessner <[email protected]> wrote:

> I once saw an interesting discussion about using machine learning to
> generate the code based on a series of tests.  It was predicted, that in
> the future, instead of writing algorithms, programmers would be in the
> business of defining requirements such that ML processes could generate the
> bytecode necessary to make the tests pass.
>
> I can't tell if such a prediction means that Test-first is actually
> solving a technical problem, or if that means the people problem is just
> moved up a level.
>
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019, 18:03 Steve Gordon <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Problematic interactions (and miscommunications) are only part of the
>> "people problems".  There are outright mistakes, misconceptions, conflicts
>> of interests, politics, etc.
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 7:04 AM Alex Fürstenau <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> A little bit off-topic but I hate the term "people problems", because it
>>> sounds like the problem is within the people involved although the problems
>>> are almost always located in the interactions between the people.
>>>
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