TDD is BS?

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Sat Jun 22 09:35:04 PDT 2013


On 6/22/13 5:54 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-06-21 21:11, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>> I've been around long enough to have seen an endless parade of magic new
>> techniques du jour, most of which purport to remove the necessity of
>> thought about your programming problem.
>
> One needs to be opened minded and be able to try new things.
>
>> But there is one technique that stands head and shoulders above the
>> others in improving code quality, sometimes dramatically so. That's unit
>> testing coupled with a coverage analyzer.
>
> I can imagine that these techniques have been new at some point in time
> as well. It's possible that a new technique comes a long that help you
> as much as these techniques do.

Was new in 1962: http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/282767.pdf.

Andrei




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