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Is TDD dead?
Rails creator David Heinemeier Hanson recently (April 23rd) wrote a debate-evoking blog post about TDD and testing.Check the below Google Hangout debate between DHH, Martin Fowler and Kent Beck in response to this article:
In regards to that, summarizing my recent learning says:
- testing ensures correctness/coverage, so the tests themselves should not be our main focus.
- They are there to let me rest assured ("sleep well at night") knowing my code is working as I would expect.
- The less pronounced reason, is that the point of a test is to do so in as much isolation as possible (whether at unit test level or through some integration/system test "code branch")
- Attempting to isolate a behavior necessarily forces me to think about whether my code is factored in a way that makes it "possible"...
- ..."Possible" to isolate behaviors that I believe are "independent" enough to be separately testable.
- In this light, testing is actually a design aid. (that does not mean to say it CANNOT BE ACHIEVED otherwise!)
- Self-testing code is the optimum goal here - how you achieve it is more of a detail.
- It gives you the confidence to extend, re-factor and scale your code in a relatively short time (making project deadlines a reality)
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