Re: [AM] Code reviews preventative?

"J. B. Rainsberger" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.programming.modeling.agile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Paul Oldfield wrote:

> (responding to J.B.)
> 
>>I have never seen Pair Programming without TDD, although I've
>>done TDD without Pair Programming. I may implicitly assume
>>that Pair Programming implies TDD. :)
> 
> Not necessarily.
> 
> The situation is complex, but to refactor in safety you need
> a full set of regression tests (not necessarily TTD though).
> To support Simple Design you need refactoring.
> Yet Pair Programming can in theory be done without either
> of these.  Nice to know, in case you ever find yourself in
> such a situation...

I am not claiming that Pair Programming is impossible with TDD. I think 
we all understand that that's obviously false. I /am/ mentioning that I 
don't know of projects that Pair but do not practise TDD. I'm making an 
observation of a correlation; and not describing a rule.
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