>This is basically test driven development I thought the same thing. Just a week ago I finished reading the "Pragmatic Unit Testing in Java" book and after ski

>This is basically test driven development I thought the same thing. Just a week ago I finished reading the "Pragmatic Unit Testing in Java" book and after skimming through the article I remembered the "design unit tests first" approach which forces you to think about the API (or exported methods). I have not used it myself, but it seems quite sound.