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This is why I don't trust TDD proponents. I'm not against TDD itself, or unit testing as a whole, but I'm also not 20 y/o college kid. There is absolutely no
by mreiland 12y ago
This is why I don't trust TDD proponents. I'm not against TDD itself, or unit testing as a whole, but I'm also not 20 y/o college kid. There is absolutely no way the increase in workload of TDD doesn't have a cost.
It's a question of tradeoffs, something I've said many many times, and the research appears to be bearing that out.
No one who is being honest can really say with a straight face that development with TDD is actively faster unless they're naive or they're using cherry picked examples.
- UK-AL 12y agoIts faster in terms development + time spent fixing bugs. If you want it out now, but have loads of bugs sure. But i'm pretty sure most managers don't mean that, when they say they want it out sooner.
- mreiland 12y agoNot even the research bears that out.
- BurningFrog 12y ago> There is absolutely no way the increase in workload of TDD doesn't have a cost. TDD has both costs and benefits. Like most everything else.