Re: Three Law of TDD - to strictly follow, or not?

I would always do this when leaving for the day, mostly as a way of
reminding myself in the morning what I was working on


On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Charlie Poole [email protected]
[testdrivendevelopment] <[email protected]> wrote:

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> A rule of thumb I followed for many years was to leave a failing test when
> taking a break.
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> Charlie
> On Aug 27, 2014 6:41 AM, "Tim Ottinger [email protected]
> [testdrivendevelopment]" <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Never trust a test you have never seen fall.
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>> Tests can pass for the wrong reasons.
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>> You have to trust then or get rid of them.
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>> That said, there are intermediate steps which are legitimately green on
>> your way to completing a more significant goal.
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>> That only leaves a few little procedural questions.
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>> How long does it remain incomplete?
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>> How do you denote that it is incomplete?
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>> How do you website you don't abandon it?
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>> Most of the time you work one test to completion before check-in or
>> taking a break so it is a non-issue.
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>> But if you are forced to leave our for a while, these things matter.
>> On Aug 27, 2014 3:09 AM, "Samuel Åslund [email protected]
>> [testdrivendevelopment]" <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> On 14/8/26 17:48, Kaleb Pederson [email protected]
>>> [testdrivendevelopment] wrote:
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>>>  Do you consider, "an incomplete but green test is at best misleading
>>> and at worst wrong"?
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>>> You might want to consider the difference between a test during
>>> development locally and a test that have been checked in to the common
>>> repository.
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>>> I have been confused by tests with names saying they check something
>>> that is not checked, making me spend time searching for problem in the
>>> wrong place.
>>> On the other hand during TDD it is rather important to know that the
>>> test actually fails, like you and others describe. The key as I see it is
>>> if the test is committed or not. Mostly the tests confusing me have come
>>> from being interupted while they happened to be green and then missing that
>>> they was not compete when coming back.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> //Samuel
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>>>      
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-- 
Maybe she awoke to see the roommate's boyfriend swinging from the
chandelier wearing a boar's head.

Something which you, I, and everyone else would call "Tuesday", of course.