”If you’re a Software Development Manager, ask your engineers if they’re using TDD, and if they’re not, make them start.” Is anyone actually doing this? I mean, lots of people, including me, think it’s a good idea, but who’s actually doing it? Hands up, now!
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Thijs van der Vossen
Mark
Both the Feed Validator and my Universal Feed Parser are test-driven. The validator was test-driven from day 1; the feed parser had tests added later, but now all new features and bug reports have tests before a single line of code is added.
It's not for everything, but it's for more than you think.
Joe Grossberg
I've used it for my own small, personal scripts.
Alas, I haven't done so at work.
One of the problems with TDD, and Unit Testing in general, is applying it to web applications.
Meri
I used it with great success for a university software development project last year. And I've gotten my developers at work to the point that they do TDD, but unfortunately not automatic testing ... they're still relying on a QA dept that manually runs tests :-\
Jez
I'd echo Mark - it's not for everything, but it is for most things.
GUIs and web apps tend to be harder (sometimes much harder) than, say, a library, but it's still be worth trying.
Sam Newman
Yep, I use it. Joe's point is well put however - TDD becomes problematic when you are using API's which are hard to test - web apis being a case in point. It just so happens that APIs written using TDD happen to be easy to test...
I am. It's true, it just works. ;-)