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Feb 13 / 12:49am

The evil unit test

Unit tests can be evil, I know that sounds harsh, but I think there is a battle to be fight to make people understand that unit tests are not always good, and that they actually can become evil, specially when overused.

Unit tests may be overused too. So far I didn't encounter a project that would suffer from the syndromes described in the article, but I they must exist somewhere. But not in the JavaScript world of today, I'm afraid.

Filed under: programming   tdd  
Jan 22 / 9:57pm

Flipping the Bit

What if you were on the Starship Enterprise and the warp coil was seconds away from an anti-matter explosion and all you needed to do was invert one IF statement to save the ship. Would you use TDD for that?: Yes.

The article embodies what I see as the biggest problem with Test Driven Development's evangelism: it's full of religious zeal, but short on real-world numbers.

Filed under: software development   tdd