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

The way I personally see it, TDD works because the test becomes the first user of the code and source of early feedback. This is especially true when a developer is building an internal APIs implementing an externally facing use case. May be just one example but I seen it work again and again. My advice to engineers stuck in tactical writer block has been to start with writing a test. They end unblocking themselves or realizing that the idea wasn’t that good in the first place and taking a different design route.

Slava Imeshev

> On Nov 20, 2019, at 5:34 AM, Steve Gordon <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Me, too.
> 
> However, TDD works because it addresses the uncertainties that people problems create, not because it addresses any technical programming issues.
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> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 5:41 AM Dave Nicolette <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> I could agree with that formulation without reservation.
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> On 11/20/19, Ron Jeffries <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> > I wonder how we'd come down on "Software is primarily a people problem
> > rather than a technical problem".
> >
> >> On Nov 20, 2019, at 2:08 AM, Dave Nicolette <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> you write, "Software development is a people problem, not a technical
> >> problem," I hope you're exaggerating to make a point. If software
> >> development were *not* in any sense a technical problem, and were
> >> *only* a people problem, then you could put a bunch of naked people on
> >> a desert island with no technology, and they could produce software.
> >> Such is the power of the word, "not."
> >
> >
> > Ron Jeffries
> > ronjeffries.com <http://ronjeffries.com/> <http://ronjeffries.com/ <http://ronjeffries.com/>>
> > You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. --
> > William Blake
> >
> >
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