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It’s selling snake oil from the beginning. Prototypical snake oil salesmen like Martin Fowler, Kent Beck and Uncle Bob have made careers out of it, and have fos
by bluetomcat 3y ago
It’s selling snake oil from the beginning. Prototypical snake oil salesmen like Martin Fowler, Kent Beck and Uncle Bob have made careers out of it, and have fostered a generation of people doing it at the company level.
- disgruntledphd2 3y ago> Martin Fowler, Kent Beck and Uncle Bob Dunno about the last, but I have gotten a bunch of value out of Beck's TDD book and Fowler's refactoring book.
- troupo 3y ago> a bunch of value out of Beck's TDD book Meanwhile Kent Beck [1]: "I get paid for code that works, not for tests, so my philosophy is to test as little as possible to reach a given level of confidence" [1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/153565 https://stackoverflow.com/a/153565
- disgruntledphd2 3y agoYeah totally. I find tests a useful design tool in what I do, but I definitely only test everything when I'm working on a complicated piece of legacy code that I don't understand.