Re: How do you write tests if you aren't sure what the result should be?

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On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 5:47 AM, Ron Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Amir,
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> On Feb 17, 2013, at 11:00 PM, "Amir Kolsky" <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > I meant that the derivation of the formulae that you THEN implemented in
> TDD
> > did not have anything to do with TDD.
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> Of course it didn't have to do with TDD. It has to do with the laws of
> physics. It has to do with understanding the problem and is possible
> solutions. It has to do with understanding what happens if frame rate
> changes.
>
> If we don't understand those things, our penguin will never fly right,
> because there are an infinity of possible calculations for his x position
> and y position.
>
> These are matters for thought. When we do TDD we don't stop thinking. We
> stop believing everything we think, and we stop imagining that when we
> write code, it works as we imagine.
>
> Ron Jeffries
> www.XProgramming.com
> If another does not intend offense, it is wrong for me to seek it;
> if another does indeed intend offense, it is foolish for me to permit it.
>   -- Kelly Easterley
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