2011/4/18 Lê Xuân Thảo <tha...@gmail.com>: > On 18/04/2011 13:51, Serge Stinckwich wrote: >> 2011/4/18 Gwenhael Le Moine <gwenhael.le.mo...@gmail.com>: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Glad to hear about this success. >>> >>> I couldn't help myself but fix the code to make it more "elegant" (in >>> my own eyes) @ https://gist.github.com/924864 (somehow the unittest >>> thing is broken on my machine, but I learned something today... I >>> wanted to attend because I was curious about this "Unit-Testing" trend >>> people constantly talk about and that I never really got... Turns out >>> it's what I've called testing all my life :/ ) >> >> In fact, the code was written in randori mode with different people >> and this was a time-limited exercice. >> So the design looks maybe a bit strange, if you don't attend the session. > > Five minutes to write a test and then make it pass is too short to make > meaningful (albeit small) changes. Next time I think we should change it > back to 7 or even 10.
5 to 7 minutes is the usual timebox, because short time force you to have baby steps ;-) If the steps are larger, we are tempted to made large code modifications and you can make big mistakes. More words about baby steps here: http://agilesoftwaredevelopment.com/baby-steps Regards, -- Serge Stinckwich UMI UMMISCO 209 (IRD/UPMC), Hanoi, Vietnam Every DSL ends up being Smalltalk http://doesnotunderstand.org/ _______________________________________________ POST RULES : http://wiki.hanoilug.org/hanoilug:mailing_list_guidelines _______________________________________________ HanoiLUG mailing lists: http://lists.hanoilug.org/ HanoiLUG wiki: http://wiki.hanoilug.org/ HanoiLUG blog: http://blog.hanoilug.org/
