UPDATE: A few updates from Martin Fowler:
- guest post on his blog about cost and benefits of a unit test culture
- A page for these conversations about #isTDDdead, including links to recordings
original note:
background:
- DHH: TDD is dead. Long live testing.
“Test-first fundamentalism is …. [a]n unrealistic, ineffective morality campaign for self-loathing and shaming. It didn’t start out like that.” - Kent Beck: RIP TDD
“…now I need to hire new techniques to help me solve many of my problems during programming” - Martin Fowler: Hangout on TDD…
“a series of video hangouts to discuss TDD, and the trade-offs around testing and architecture” - Hangout 1 (G+)
- Hangout 2
a few tweets from hangout 1
watching @dhh, @martinfowler, @KentBeck on #istdddead. 1st @dhh on microtesting all the things, not necessary useful (my words)
basic q: as a programmer, do you deserve to feel confident? @KentBeck (@dhh: programmer happiness) #istdddead #techsafety
i have to have a feedback loop, and the feedback loop has to be repeatable. @KentBeck not mocking much, even when tdd n/a #istdddead