On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 02:06:24AM -0800, Judy Tang wrote:
> Thanks Richard. This is a great example. Woulter also said he uses TDD.
> Would be interest to hear from more cats, fishes on TDD experience :-)
> Does the initial development cycle becomes longer, how much longer? Any
> special tool for TDD?
Yes the initial development cycle becomes longer since you need to set
up the testing infrastructure and create all the unit tests. This it the
most important argument why developers tend not to do TDD. The short
term influence is readily visible but the long term influence (it *does*
save lots of time eventually) is not! The reason why it saves time is
that a good code coverage with unit tests will show any failing code if
any change is made immediately.
There are no special tools needed to do TDD. NetBeans and Eclipse both
support JUnit and TestNG, the most popular frameworks for TDD in Java
land. the only thing needed is the right mindset of all the developers.
Wouter
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