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His comment about the "zoo" of data-driven tests made the way my university's major algorithms class did tests finally make sense. It's not a concept that parti
by biggerfisch 10y ago
His comment about the "zoo" of data-driven tests made the way my university's major algorithms class did tests finally make sense. It's not a concept that particularly easy to search for when you're working from the command of "make tests with this filename format, 'test-<args>'", nor is it even something that strikes one as something that might be an actual design pattern (at least for me).
I do wish the reasoning had been explained to me far earlier as I might have been able to really recognize the testing as useful and not just another strange requirement.
- tinganho 10y agoI actually wrote an article about this strategy: https://medium.com/@tinganho/baseline-acceptance-driven-development-f39f7010a04#.i7ze6bkw3 https://medium.com/@tinganho/baseline-acceptance-driven-deve...
- aisofteng 10y agoIt occurred to me in response to your comment that, pedagogically, it seems so obvious to tell math students to check their work, yet my universities never even mentioned unit tests (outside, perhaps, of the sole, non-required software engineering course, as I believe it was a work coop type of arrangement).