Moin, On Wednesday 29 March 2006 22:44, Andrew Savige wrote: > --- Tels wrote: > > although I still can only guess what TDD stands for :) > > Tolkien Driven Development? > > Googling around for examples of real world large systems developed > using TDD, I found http://www.agiledata.org/essays/tdd.html which > states: > > The first reaction that many people have to agile techniques is > that they're ok for small projects, perhaps involving a handful > of people for several months, but that they wouldn't work for > "real" projects that are much larger. ThatÂ’s simply not true. > Beck (2003) reports working on a Smalltalk system taking a > completely test-driven approach which took 4 years and 40 > person years of effort, resulting in 250,000 lines of > functional code and 250,000 lines of test code. There are > 4000 tests running in under 20 minutes, with the full suite
Woa, BigInt has more tests :-D Of course, it was not developed with TDD... Thanx for the insight, Tels -- Signed on Thu Mar 30 18:05:23 2006 with key 0x93B84C15. Visit my photo gallery at http://bloodgate.com/photos/ PGP key on http://bloodgate.com/tels.asc or per email. "If Duke Nukem Forever is not out in 2001, something's very wrong." - George Broussard, 2001 (http://tinyurl.com/6m8nh)
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