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• Absolutely! (Score:2, Interesting)

  by jordan (120)

  • While we admittedly do some strange things in tests (I override function definitions left and right), for the most part, good software practices apply to tests because tests are software.

  I couldn't agree more.

  Being an ardent advocate of TDD, I wouldn't think of writing a line of test software before I have the tests for that test software in place. Of course, the test-tests are also software and require that tests for them be written first and those tests require that tests, well you get the idea.
  • Re:Absolutely! (Score:1)

    by chromatic (983) on 2003.10.31 15:05 (#25349) Homepage Journal

    The nice part about TDD is that the tests test the code and the code tests the test. That is, if you write a test, make sure it fails, write the code, make sure it passes, you can avoid most of the worry.

    Writing a good test library is harder, though.

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    • Re:Absolutely! (Score:1)

      by jordan (120)

      It was a joke, not an attempt to find a flaw with TDD...
      • Re:Absolutely! (Score:1)

        by chromatic (983)

        Oops. Heh. Spend a year writing a book on Extreme Programming. I might be permanently incapable of telling when people are serious about holding silly ideas or just joking.
        • Re:Absolutely! (Score:1)

          by pdcawley (485)

          I like it best when people are silly about holding serious ideas.