Hamilton Verissimo de Oliveira (Engenharia - SPO) wrote:
I give up.
don't take it too seriously, dude! Ulrich is dead wrong in considering unit testing a bad idea. You know that, I know that, but yet here @ avalon we, in practice, follow more of his methodology (little unit testing).....so he might actually have a point ;)
Check out the def for Doctine:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=doctrine
Using the second and third definitions, both points of view can be described as doctrine.
Putting on my ill-fitting liberal's hat (I don't wear it much ;P), we should tolerate different development doctrines as much as possible. It just isn't worth a holy war over.
The thing is, when it comes to software development, we have not discovered absolute truth, so there is truth to be found in all of the doctrines that abound: CMM, RUP, TDD, XP, etc.
In many cases, what works for one group will never work for another. It's just the nature of the beast.
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"They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin
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