Thanks Wouter and Richard, it is very good discussion, we should think
more topics like this to discuss in quality alias :-)
Wouter van Reeven wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 02:06:24AM -0800, Judy Tang wrote:
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>> 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?
>>
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> 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.
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> Wouter
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