Re: [TFUI] comments on my first chapter

Ron Jeffries <[email protected]> Wed, 19 Apr 2006 22:01:59 -0400

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On Wednesday, April 19, 2006, at 8:50:57 PM, yahoogroups-1e+8sjoZAN9Wk0Htik3J/[email protected] wrote:

>> You'll probably recall an effort by Dave Astels and some others to
>> rename TDD to Behavior-Driven Development or some such, to avoid
>> this new use of the word "test", which seems to confuse some
>> readers.

> They have a quite nice little rewrite of xUnit for Ruby named
> RSpec that puts these ideas into practice. It's on RubyForge.
> I put together a Python version of the core that I've integrated
> into my test harness for PyFit although I haven't used it enough
> to see whether it's going to be worth it, or whether it's just
> an intriguing idea that doesn't pull its weight.

I'll be interested to hear what you discover. My intuition is that
it's "just" different words ... but that can be important.

Ron Jeffries
www.XProgramming.com
Without practice, no emergence. -- Dougen Zenji



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