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My understanding is that it's kind of a 3-pronged thing, It originates (or is "rediscovered") by Kent Beck working in, at-the-time, Smalltalk. It has huge adopt
by Guid_NewGuid 4y ago
My understanding is that it's kind of a 3-pronged thing, It originates (or is "rediscovered") by Kent Beck working in, at-the-time, Smalltalk. It has huge adoption in the RonR community. And lastly the usual Java suspects who never met a bad pattern they couldn't massively overadopt, e.g. the so-called "Uncle" Bob who never met a pattern he couldn't jam into code to overcomplicate it.
- ollien 4y agoYou know, I knew there was a major association between TDD and XP (wonder why!) and I had always heard of XP being Java related, but looking deeper I'm not sure that's has true as I thought
- hbrn 4y ago> It has huge adoption in the RonR community Is that even true? DHH (RoR creator) hates TDD.
- Guid_NewGuid 4y agoIt's been hard to find a timeline or more general history of TDD and I should have probably used the word "had" above. But my understanding is RSpec[0] was a huge driver of the test driven development hype cycle. While DHH[1] has, as of 2014, come out against TDD and was probably never 100% on-board he is not the whole community and that's still a gap of 9 years where, in my understanding, it was broadly popularised as both "the way you should be doing things in Rails" and, as with most things in Rails "the way everyone should be doing things". [0]: https://www.stevenrbaker.com/tech/history-of-rspec.html https://www.stevenrbaker.com/tech/history-of-rspec.html [1]: https://dhh.dk/2014/tdd-is-dead-long-live-testing https://dhh.dk/2014/tdd-is-dead-long-live-testing