Weekly Concerns: Test Driven Drama
Welcome to another "Weekly Concerns". This is a post-a-week series of interesting links, relevant to programming and programmers. You can check out previous Weekly Concerns posts in the archive.
This is a special edition of Weekly Concerns, in that I'm attempting to cover the recent dust up over TDD that was triggered by DHH and responded to by several notable developer pundits. Note that I respect all of the developers in this conversation and I believe they are all making important points, but the way they communicate can be somewhat... abrasive... so make sure your jimmies are secure before you start reading.
- April 22: David Heinemeir Hansson's opening keynote at railsconf which lays the groundwork for...
- April 23: TDD is dead. Long live testing. by David Heinemeir Hansson.
- April 25: Monogamous TDD by Uncle Bob Martin.
- April 29: RIP TDD by Kent Beck
- April 29: Test-induced design damage by David Heinemeir Hansson.
- April 30: TDD, Straw Men, and Rhetoric by Gary Bernhardt. First DAS blog post in years.
- April 30: When TDD doesn't work by Uncle Bob Martin.
- April 30: Slow database test fallacy by David Heinemeir Hansson.
- May 1: Test Induced Design Damage? by Uncle Bob Martin.
- May 1: The TDD Divide: Everyone is Right by Cory House.
- May 2: Professionalism and TDD by Uncle Bob Martin.
- May 3: A remix of Professionalism and TDD by Gregory Brown.
- May 9: Is TDD dead? Part 1 panel discussion on Google Hangouts with David Heinemeir Hansson, Kent Beck, and Martin Fowler.
Lots of others have weighed in, of course, in blog posts and on Twitter. This type of discussion has been going on since Kent Beck wrote his TDD book; I believe it will continue long into the future. So I guess it's probably a good time to reread Jim Holmes book "Best Practices in Software Engineering and Testing", which is no longer available, but I will reprint in its entirety here (completely from memory, so forgive me if the phrasing isn't quite right):
"Use your brain."
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