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> 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.
by 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.