Re: TDD for numerical algorithms

Hello, George.  On Thursday, May 27, 2010, at 9:49:53 AM, you
wrote:

> But it was not a TDD of the algorithm.  It was a TFD of the algorithm,
> where the tests provided the minimum necessary to support the 
> algorithm's operation.

I'm not at all sure that this distinction is crisp, nor that it
should be. It seems to me that writing tests first is a very nuanced
practice, not one that has hard lines in it saying over here it's TF
and over here it's TD.

I suspect that as wrong-brain thinkers we have a tendency to want to
nail down the clouds.

Ron Jeffries
www.XProgramming.com
www.xprogramming.com/blog
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