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

  Tests are specific enough so    a robot could generate passing code automatically, I suspect,    now.   



The robot will need to generalize.









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> On Nov 20, 2019 at 5:12 PM, Avi Kessner  <[email protected]>  wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019, 18:03 Steve Gordon  <[email protected]>  wrote:
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> > Problematic interactions (and miscommunications) are only part of the "people problems".    There are outright mistakes, misconceptions, conflicts of interests, politics, etc.   
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> > On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 7:04 AM Alex Fürstenau  <[email protected]>  wrote:
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> > > 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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